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Some highlights of last night’s dinner with friends.

• Sweet corn at its fresh and local peak.
• Three kinds of pasture-raised meat (beef, goat, lamb) cooked over a fire fueled with wood from the same property.
• Homemade coffee ice cream with chocolate chunks.
• Fruit salad made entirely of fruit from friends’ farm. The fruits included plums, peaches, pluots and an unusual and pretty cucumber, seeded. Note to potential fruit growers: Someone asked Lynn whether fruit trees aren’t a lot of work, and her response, “Not if you ignore them.” Which is what she claims to do.
• Fresh, local tomatoes and basil.

Bliss. And to top off the fine food, birthday boy John Hulsey shared his art.

(Photo courtesy snapdragon at morguefile.com)