On an elephant, originally uploaded by timbu.

The kids and I atop an elephant at the Rennaisance Festival. (I know you can’t exactly see me in the picture, but I’m there really.)

Salad of the Week, originally uploaded by timbu.

This is a picture my favorite summer time salad, Insalata Caprese.

The tomatoes were courtesy of Erin & Guido and had far more flavor than what you get in the grocery store.

Thanks.

There were two bright spots in an otherwise dismal day. One, early yesterday morning someone surprised me with a pineapple scone. Secondly, I went and saw the movie, “Little Miss Sunshine“.

It was by far the best movie I’ve seen this year. A movie hasn’t made me this happy since I saw “Garden State”, “Lost in Translation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” – my personal movie trifecta of the last few years.

It’s a fantastic cast — every actor seems to have a scene or two where their character totally steals the show and makes the movie.

If one was a total snob about indie movies, you could complain about how perfect and commercial the cinematography was or whether the characters are too indie-cliche or whether the VW bus bit was too cutesy, but quickly you’ll lapsed into the kind of rhapsodic ranting that the comic book guy from the Simpson’s excels at and all your friends will be rolling theirs eyes and waiting for you to be done talking about the movie that did it better, the one no one saw and no one cares about. Yes, I am talking about you, get over yourself.