summer dinner love

What I love about summer dinners:

inside - the light sticking around long enough to join us for an evening meal

outside - Well, everything. Even when we're not actually eating outside, I'm dreaming about eating outside. And dreaming about jumping into any of these photographs with a summer dinner in hand:

where my heart is
porch
untitled
under Alicia's pergola
picnic

Comments

[Julia]

Great photos- and great photo links. I'm really starting to get into summer here in MN too. It's been a while since I've lived in a place with four distinct seasons- It's fun to get back to that feeling of "oh it's summer. winter is FINALLY over!".

I also noticed that you but Barbara Kingsolver's new book on your sidebar- I'm loving my way through this book right now- great pick, and so perfect for summer and a season ahead of eating fresh fruit and veggies! (hopefully from my garden!)

[Plumtickled]

You're making me want to clean off/out my porch and set a table for supper! It's just so hot already..... south Georgia is in the 90's, except when we have a much needed summer evening storm that rattles and rolls our old house.

Maybe dessert and a tall glass of sweet tea?

I love the way you make everything seems new and needed. Great job!

[melody]

Wow- great pics as usual and great links... I loved the link to Interludio's photos, her work is amazing... I could spend all day looking at her photos.

[Emily]

We just got our first set of outdoor furniture and I've insisted on eating outside every night since ... although I'm sure it doesn't help my hayfever!

[Vivien]

I'm on the other side of the world (and it is summer here too, albeit a very rainy one) and your posts always inspire such a sense of calm enjoyment. In the tropics, high summer is often something to be endured rather than celebrated, but you're giving me a beautiful perspective on it all! Always reading your posts, always enjoying your outlook.....

[Grace]

mmm ... i totally love your tulips. love, love, love!!!

[Jenna]

Oh those outdoor tables struck a nerve! In Chicago we have Cicadas this year. My patio looks like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/43698034@N00/548026636/
I wish we could be on a porch like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/43698034@N00/547948280/in/photostream/

[karen]

beautiful. but how do you keep the bugs away? these Maine mosquitos are keeping me inside looking out.

[kristin]

great little tribute. dining al fresco is definitely a pleasure. the photos you shared are quite wonderful discoveries of outdoor nooks. happy dining!

[geek+nerd]

Beautiful photos, both yours and the flickr links. I'm with Karen though - what to do about New England mosquitoes!?

[SOULEMAMA]

geek+nerd and karen -
are the bugs bad where you are? They were ridiculously bad a few weeks ago, particularly up North a bit. But here and now, they only seem to come out after dark, which is when we're heading in for the babes' bedtime anyway. I do think Portland - with the cooler temps and ocean breezes - gets it easy on the bugs.

Oh, but I have been digging a new bug spray this year - it's the Kiss My Face SwyFlotter. I've been covering all of us in it whenever we hit the woods. Smells so good.

[Julie]

Love your photos... and great links! The fish camp cottage looks so inviting!

[heidi]

awesome. i dream of being outside even when i am indoors. the rain in the midwest has made this a bit of a bummer. sun for tomorrow. yes.

[Florence]

Hi,
I have been reading your blog for a while now but I have never posted a comment before.
I find your photos and creations beautiful.
I leave in New Zealand and we are now inthe middle of winter, brrr! It is nice to read about summer and the warm days...

[Melissa]

what beautiful tables and I adore the blue chairs.

[shari]

i'm adoring eating outside at our picnic table, too. we had our granola outside this morning before it became too hot. lovely photos. xo