October 27: Sunday

In from the woods.
Crusty boule, toasted, with Brie.
Football on TV.

February 23: Cheese

At dinner at Fromviandoux, a recent addition to Camden's restaurant scene, we shared a cheese plate with another couple. I don't remember what two of the three cheeses were, because I fell in love with one of them at first bite: Lakin's Gorges Prix de Diane, a creamy soft, Brie-like cheese made locally from organic cow's milk.

The Lakin's Gorges website describes it like this: "A divine, bloomy rind cheese with a velvety white rind and a pate of pale yellow that darkens to rich yellow and gets more runny near the rind as it ages. A bouquet of milk and hints of citrus."

Bouquet of milk
blooms on the tongue--
dreamy creaminess.

Yes, apparently even cheese can be sensual...

June 1: Baguette and Brie

Whenever we travel to Mount Desert Island, we always stop in Ellsworth at Rooster Brother for one of their homemade baguettes, a wedge of Brie, and a wedge of mousse truffee. And a few quality chocolate bars for the road, preferably bittersweet chocolate filled with marzipan or dark chocolate with almonds and sea salt.  On our way up the coast to the Acadia Birding Festival on Friday afternoon, the sun was shining. It was too glorious a day to spend so many hours in the car, so we took our goodies to a picnic table alongside the Union River and watched cormorants patrol the river while an osprey called nearby. Simple pleasures, enhanced by the adventure of being on the road to a fun weekend together.

Baguette, cheese, pate,
your company, riverside--
the joys of travel.