Good Morning!
Happy Spring and Happy Birthday to my Mom (who, if she were alive, would be 106 today!!). It is the 20th of March and is the Spring Equinox. Our day is a bit on the grey side. We are expecting misty conditions most of the day and then rain maybe by dinnertime. The past few days have been absolutely gorgeous with blue, blue skies and temps hovering around 70. It's ok to have a slightly dimmer day once in awhile...just makes you appreciate those gorgeous days all the more.
Yesterday's weather was so wonderful that Fletch decided to grill. I took some lamb chops out of the freezer. Boy were they delicious! Lamb is not something I want to eat on a regular basis, but when you have a really good lamb chop it is a wonderful thing. Anyway, I decided to try a new (to me) recipe for Roasted Asparagus Potato Salad.
I will be making this salad again and again.
The recipe calls for fingerling potatoes, but I used little red potatoes (having no fingerlings in the fridg). They roasted perfectly and then asparagus was added to the pan. What I like about this recipe is that it is best served warm or at room temperature. Meaning, I could finish it before the chops were ready. THIS is the recipe I used.
And now, with it being the third Thursday of the month, it's time to share a poem with everyone. Like Kat I've been spending much time with Ted Kooser's poems. I always find them soothing and calming. This poem can be found in the volume of Kooser's poetry I recently read: Delights and Shadows.
Turkey Vultures
Circling above us, their wing tips fanned
like fingers, it is as if they are smoothing
one of those tissue paper patterns
over the pale blue fabric of the air,
touching the heavens with leisurely pleasure,
just a word or two called back and forth,
taking all the time in the world, even though
the sun is low and red in the west, and they
have fallen behind with the making of shrouds.
Bonny is hosting a link up for poems - be sure to check it out.
And that's it from me. I need to review all the stuff I pulled together for taxes - my appointment is at 10 this morning. Hoping for a favorable outcome!
This is a lovely poem, Vera, and I thank you for sharing it! I'm always amazed that poets (especially Ted Kooser) can take something so mundane (and ugly!) like turkey vultures and make them beautiful. I'll think about their wingtips smoothing tissue paper patterns over the sky the next time I see them.
ReplyDeleteThe words are interesting to me because they don't fit my image of vultures! The potatoes/asparagus dish looks so good!
ReplyDeleteHi, Vera! It’s Carolyn. As always, your dinner looks delicious and is making me hungry :)
ReplyDeleteLike folks in many parts, wesee turkey vultures here all.the.time. And having had one hit smack in the middle of my driver-side windshield one day (whoa!), they’re one of my least faves. But this poem?? what a reframing.
I'm so glad someone besides me has an appreciation for vultures. I adore the ones that live out in the our woods. I just read an article where someone photographed a "funeral" that a flock was holding for a deceased member. They drug the body into a meadow and then made a beautiful circle around the dead bird and stood there for hours in their grief.
ReplyDeleteI hope your taxes went well!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to see signs of spring in eastern PA! and stitching, grilling, more cooking, and a few good books. I must admit I'm not really a fan of the turkey vultures, but Ted Kooser can still make me want to take notice the next time I see one.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I've ever seen a turkey vulture in person (or if I have, I haven't known it), so I had to google to see what one looks like, and I have to say that it takes a poet to make them seem beautiful! I went to the library yesterday and borrowed two volumes by Ted Kooser because so many of you have been raving about him recently!
ReplyDeleteHope all went well with the taxes!