Walking

[osprey_archer]

I walked to the library yesterday, which is rather a long walk and mostly alongside a busy street; but I found a couple of picturesque scenes along the way.

Like this



It's in front of a private house, as you can see, but I still want to give it a go every single time I walk past. A swing hanging from a tree! You don't see that too often anymore!

When I was little, we used to vacation at a rustic resort up in Michigan, with cabins and a shuffleboard and a little dock down by the lake. And there was a tree, on the road to the lake, with a swing hanging from its vast spreading branches - within sight of the cabin, so I could go there whenever I wanted and swing.



I also found this house, which looks like a throwback to the old days when this area must still have been farmland:



Every time I walk past it I expect to see a pony walk out of that gate.



Mondays are my day off, so we made a rather fabulous dinner last night. For hors d'oeuvres we had slices of apples with honey and brie (I did not take a picture of these, because they were not visually very interesting, but they were delicious, highly recommended), and I also caramelized onions to put on bagel pizzas.

I caramelized only half an onion, and ended up putting all of it on the bagel pizzas. This was delicious, although it probably would have been better to caramelize a whole onion and save some for later.

Comments

[littlerhymes]

That swing looks incredibly tempting... and oh man I love reading your food descriptions.

Would caramelising a whole onion simply tempt you to eat more onion tho?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Someday, I'm going to give into temptation and swing on the swing. With my luck it will be the day that the whole family is home, and they will come out and gawp at me in horror.

Caramelizing a whole onion probably would tempt me to eat more onion, but onion is delicious and probably good for you so clearly that would be a win!

[c-maxx.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! Is that New England?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

No, this is actually in Indiana. I guess the architect may have been going for a New England aesthetic.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Those bagel pizzas are mouth-watering!And the swing and the open gate really are scenic. And this is in Indianapolis?! It's very beautiful and WAY more rural than I imagined it would be.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

This is in Indianapolis. They're actually pictures of little pockets of rurality along a busy street; the big barn-like farmhouse is down in a hollow behind some trees, so it might be quiet there, but I suspect that the swing is too close to the street to be a really nice place for swinging, even though it's cute as the dickens.