The light was so beautiful at Reading Terminal Market on Friday afternoon. I’m not sure I did it true justice, but I still love how it turned out.

It wasn’t until after I taken this picture and was looking at it on the back of the camera did I realize that our reflections figured so prominently in it. But then I sort of loved it, particularly since it shows us in such typical position, side-by-side, gadgets in hand.

Around 12:15 p.m. today, my cell phone rang. I didn’t realize it at first, because the phone was still in the filing drawer where I stash my purse when I get to work each day (what? This isn’t how you deal with your personal belongings while at your place of employment?) and so the ringing was muted. Luckily, I was able to place the clattering noise bleating from inside my desk before the caller was shunted off to voicemail exile.

It was Scott.

He was calling to find out if I wanted to get lunch at Pastrami and Things (our favorite spot for inexpensive lunchtime salads and other deli items) and then go home to eat. Because his new iPhone had been delivered.

Ah. The iPhone.

Since the days have gotten long, Scott and I have been taking extended walks through the city. Tonight, we headed out just before 7 p.m. without much of a plan but a desire to be out and moving. We stopped briefly for dinner at Fat Salmon, but once finished there, kept heading east towards Penn’s Landing.

It was an amazing night along the Delaware River, with kids happily playing in the fountain and cooling breeze dancing off the water. I took a number of pictures tonight and had a hard time narrowing down my daily selection to a single image. So here are the rest of the best from our wander.

I got just over nine pounds of these amazing, fragrant apricots yesterday. Four pounds have already been cooked down into butter and canned (I had a very productive evening that included gardening, bike tire blow-outs, swimming, dinner, a huge batch of hummus, another one of pesto for the freezer and batches of strawberry syrup and this butter cooked and processed). Now it’s time to go to bed.

A Sunday morning brunch at home. I adore having the time on the weekend to cook a lazy meal. This one consisted of breakfast sausage patties, whole wheat biscuits and scrambled eggs with onions. I added sliced tomatoes, blueberries and coffee to my meal. Scott skipped the fruit and veg and drank Diet Pepsi with his plate (he prefers his caffeine cold and carbonated). I dabbed a bit of the Orange Rhubarb Butter on my biscuits, Scott just went with a bit of butter.

Shay and I went blueberry picking at Mood’s Farm Market in Mullica Hill, NJ today. The blueberries are unusually early this year (typically they’re not ripe until around July 4th) but I’m delighted to have them back in my life for as long as they last. Standing in the sandy soil, eating warm berries straight from the bush, it felt truly like summer.

(Just one question. Do blueberries give anyone else extra-sensitive teeth?)

I missed cherry picking this season and so haven’t been able to have my annual cherry binge (I believe that it’s important to overindulge in sweet cherries at least once a year). Happily, Whole Foods had a one-day sale today that put cherries at nearly the same price they’d be had I picked them myself ($1.99 a pound). I stopped by this afternoon and bought nearly 14 pounds (I also have a few preserving projects in mind for those juicy red orbs).

I ate them by the handful as I walked home, spitting cherry seeds and dropping stems all along 20th Street. Once back in the apartment, I settled down with the portion you see above and ate until my belly was near to bursting. It was divine and I plan to do it again tomorrow.

Oh happy, happy CSA pick-up day. Today’s share included a dozen eggs, a little wedge of cheese, 3/4 a pound of green beans (sadly, Scott won’t tough them), arugula, four cucumbers, sour cherries, a bunch of tender carrots, two big green onions (standard onions that have not been cured for storage) and a huge bundle of basil.

We’ve already eaten most of the carrots. The cherries are going to be a small batch of jam. The basil will become pesto for the freezer. And I’ll eat all the string beans.