and I'm off...

for a week that will no doubt include plenty of potato salad, fried chicken, fireworks, and maybe some sangria (of this sort if we can finagle the proper ingredients). I also plan to forage in my mother's gardens for some flowers perfect for pressing and drying, raid the vestiges of my sister's herb garden for soap herbs, and maybe take a few pictures, but mostly lounge outside in the shade for hours with nothing to occupy me but maybe a book, a notebook, and my own quiet.