On a gray day I made a golden cake

Lemon and olive oil cake from here

Voila, sunburst in my kitchen. It was lemony and light, perfect with coffee or black tea. I also have spicy fries and bright-orange sweet potato wedges turning golden in the oven as I type. Meanwhile this is what's going on outside:



Can you blame me?

Sunny upside-down apple cake

I found this recipe and couldn't resist making it and what do you know it turned out exactly as the writer pictured! Which doesn't always happen to my efforts.

Frog

The story that caused the frog in my throat this morning.

Walkers With The Dawn

Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
Walkers with the sun and morning,
We are not afraid of night,
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness--
Being walkers with the sun and morning.

- Langston Hughes