International Picnic Day is Friday, June 18th
Window display by Rebecca, photo by Trevor
Have you made plans for International Picnic Day yet? It’s on Friday, June 18th - so prepare to converge on Beacon Hill Park or another grassy patch with friends and family for some bites to eat under the evening sun and stars.
Tara Austen Weaver has a wonderful blog called Tea and Cookies where she vividly describes a picnic. Here is part of her posting (visit her blog for beautiful descriptions, photos, and recipes):
But more than the food—which was outstanding—were the people. Friends old and new, some met that very day. A conversation that dipped and wove its way through stories and laughter and strong opinions. The sharing of thoughts and hopes and experience, and even outrage sometimes, as the sun arched across an impossibly blue sky and headed for the horizon.
It reminded me of a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson that I’ve always loved:
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
And here is a link to another of her great posts about the pleasure of picnics.