End of summer

Boy, Laurie and Hazel know how to throw a picnic! Chamber-music concert at the Huntington Library last night, picnic on the lawn: rack of lamb, mustard potatoes, garden-grown tomato salad, something which Laurie called a "torta" (fluffy cheese with bits of savory stuff embedded in it). Amazing. More amazing still because it's all packed up into neat compartments and boxes: we sit down, Hazel pulls out the appetizer plates (I didn't mention the salami, cheese, and asparagus with...