TNLDRDOLSL #3 09.14.06
My sisters and I spent the weekend at my cousin Mariel’s place. We went to the beautiful, beautiful Sonya’s Garden in the Hamptons, er, Tagaytay/Cavite City (san ba talaga?) after picking her up from her CSA retreat house. I thank my Tita Sylvia and Tito Ric (and Mariel of course, coz she reads this blog palage eh, hi sweetie hug hug!) for taking such good care of us then. Wow talaga! Sonya’s alone was suuuch an experience! I couldn’t get over the inviting scent of flowers, which I would gladly name and group taxonomically had I not been stuck with an algae botany elective, and had the Fates blessed me with the course on more valuable plant life. Valuable in terms of showing off – I mean, really, not a lot of people would be impressed if you spouted out trivia on the numerous lumot and flotilla swimming in the esteros and canals of your barangay, pero asteeg for the trees, the shrubs, the vines, tsaka the flowers… I mean, plant forms you’d willingly grasp, take pictures of, or stare at (and smell and put in your hair, in the case of flowers).
SO where was I again? Okay, Sonya’s, right. Yah, the garden scent wafting in the breeze pa lang, panalo na… And yet even the food was heavenly, fresh and healthy and flavorful. Salad and pasta and bread and pate and fish and many other glorious things! Images of the Barefoot Contessa’s garden brunches, although now definitely NOT free, flit into my mind. Wanna go back… wanna go back… (taraletstarataratarataralets?)
