Springtime blooms from the past

  

Not my photo, but isn't it grand?

I did so enjoy these abundant white blooms!

Yesterday was balmy, no doubt about it. But rain came in during the night. However, before the rain I had a craving. I don't often follow my cravings, for some are a bit extravagent and not available easily. But this one was to have a slice of apple pie a la mode. Not just vanilla ice cream, but butter pecan. And so I got my trusty sneakers on and went off to our local grocery, and was so delighted to find my favorite Dutch Apple Pie...with a crumb toping. It's a lot smaller than it used to be...which is how they managed to keep the same price. Anyway, it was the only one left. I knew a Ceasar salad was dinner, so a good desert was well deserved. 

However, cooking a frozen pie takes an hour and ten minutes, and then it needs to cool for 2 hours. I cut that finaly corner a bit short by 20 minutes, The ice cream had been waiting in the freezer, and I watched old NCIS Los Angeles shows.

Sorry, after taking the picture I was busy, so I forgot to add this till I was awake this morning. If you read the post earlier you missed this.

 

Today's quote:

A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, -- both grammatically and actually, -- whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it. -James Branch Cabell, novelist, essayist, critic (14 Apr 1879-1958)