Summer Begins

Absolutely gorgeous Sunday afternoon in Minnesota. We had a delightful lunch at Admiral D's in White Bear Lake, followed by peach cobbler, tea and inspirtational conversation on the front porch of The Cottage. 

We discussed several summer road trip possibilities including Lanesboro, MN, Itasca and Mineral Point, Wisconsin. 

A few potential screenplays for Hallmark Channel movies were mapped out - fascinating story lines involving illiteracy, a one-hit-wonder, lost love and Vietnam,

Bernadette Peters as "Aunt Carol" a one-hit-wonder from the 1970s who is in danger of losing her crumbling lake-side estate, but instead of telling her niece who comes for guidance and inspiration of her financial woes, Carol takes off for Portugal, leaving her niece to pick up the pieces. An illiterate son of a Vietnam War veteran college English professor figure in somehow...

Great day today, and I look forward to many more like it this summer...