Picnic in the park

Lakeside Park, Kelseyville, California, August 19, 2012—

A LONG DRIVE to the next county today for a picnic in the park, celebrating a cousin-by-marriage's eightieth birthday. My, we're getting on! She's a wonderful woman, bright and patient and generous, and seemed to be enjoying the company of children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cousins of course, and friends she's met over the years in RV circles.

We took a big guacamole I made this morning, and a platter of sliced tomatoes, and a bottle of Cheap Pinot grigio; and there was green salad, and baked beans, and pulled pork, and watermelon, and of course a big carrot-cake with lots of festive gloppy icing. And we sat around and talked.