It looks like Monument Cafe planted a new herb garden on some unused land. Which is certainly cool. All restaurants should do something like this in my opinion. Actually, if it were up to me, I would design a restaurant where the entire roof would be a greenhouse. And it would collect and store rainwater as well. The first floor would be a parking garage. All of the outside trees would be fruit or nut bearing trees. Heck, you could probably maintain a honeybee hive somewhere on the property as well.

Jeff told me about this place and that I had to try it out. They have some pretty good sides. The tamale potato casserole was good, the apple slaw was nice and tart (perhaps a little too tart),. The pulled pork was on the dry side, however. And, while the desserts sounded good, they turned out to not be homemade. The Cheeky Monkey Parfait used banana pudding from a can.

My yogi tea gave me an interesting pattern of condensation. Which I turned into a desktop background.

Monument Cafe has had a rather unspoken battle with a handicapped driver. There are, of course, real handicapped parking spots next to the door. But apparently not enough of them. So this car has taken to trying to fit in a spot that is not designed for it. Repeatedly. The poor rose bushes suffer the brunt of the assault. And I wonder how exactly the wheelchair gets on and off the car. Maybe they don’t bother in this case.

So the new response to this situation has been to install a “do not park here” sign. Which was ignored. I wonder what the next step will be?

Here are some interesting cloud formations.

I tried Moonie’s burgers today. They had good sweet potato fries. But would only cook their burgers to well done. Sigh. Why can’t hamburger places have confidence in the quality of their meat supply? Is it that hard in our day and age?

Perhaps a replacement part for the internet?

The men get to celebrate their diversity by BBQing next to the reflecting pond.

Often, when I am driving, I see a potentially beautiful picture. And when I finally arrive home, that picture is no more. I wonder if I should keep the big camera in the car?