Last Summer Weekend

I have a feeling that last weekend was the last summer weekend. And I'm very happy that we made the most of it by eating al fresco twice. A sunset beach picnic on Friday evening, Saturday breakfast picnic in the park, and then a visit to the local Farm stand. Sunday started with exercise outdoors and ended with a nice take-out meal.  I let the pictures speak... 

We almost joined the yoga class going on behind us, but then decided that we'd have more fun just watching :-)

Saturday's lovely breakfast picnic location

BTW, I'm wearing more Marimekko from the Uniqlo! 

The tomatoes were YUM with some fresh mozzarella, the kale became two dishes: chips and sauteed kale with mushrooms, and the butternut squash was peeled, cut to slices, covered with olive oil and spices and roasted to perfection. 

Illallinen Taivaan Alla / Dinner Under the Sky

Now that the weather finally got chilled in NY, it's nice to look at the pictures from last summer. I love the sunset picnics in Sea Cliff in August. This year we made it there only a couple of times because of travel, weather, and being busy. The first time we went I had registered our dinner for the Finland 100 celebration "illallinen taivaan alla" or dinner under the sky, and served very Finnish picnic fare, i.e. herring, new potatoes, etc. The dinner under the sky concept has become huge in Finland, where people bring tables on the street and sit down with friends, neighbors, sometimes complete strangers. Ours was a very low key Finland 100 celebration due to lack of time to plan properly. However, it was a lovely night and another good summer memory.