This is it...our final Summer Friday of the year. (*Sigh*)
We couldn't start a summer Friday without stopping by Doughnut Plant, of course. I had a white peach yeast, and Jon had a triple chocolate cake. We'll definitely be returning for "Autumn Saturday" posts as well.
Cranberry Street in Brooklyn Heights, just across from the Fruit Street Sitting Area and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. (I'm from Carver...of course I'd live on Cranberry Street!) In my scratch-ticket millionaire fantasy, we'd own a brownstone on this street.
Sometimes you just need some lemonade and cookies. We got the perfect snack at One Girl Cookies in Boerum Hill. This place was much more our speed--and taste--than Levain Bakery.
You know when fall's a-comin' when the leaves start a-changin' in Prospect Park. (See...trees do grow in Brooklyn.) I took these pics near Dog Beach.
End-of-summer ice cream cones--blackberry for me, mint chocolate chip for Jon--from Blue Marble Ice Cream on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Just the right the snack. This was such a cool and mellow place...I wish it was across the street from our building in Manhattan.
Dusk on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade as we walked home to Manhattan. At left, the Brooklyn Piers waterfall. (The pic needed a little something else, so I Photoshopped in a sprig of lavender.) At right, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building. It's getting darker earlier and earlier now.
Reading this has made me very nostalgic....summer is definitely on the wane and fall is in the air. And, when you were just a little tyke you loved black raspberry ice cream. I see that hasn't changed. I hope that scratch-ticket millionaire fantasy comes true because I would love to visit you in a brownstone on that beautiful street!
Posted by: Mumma | August 23, 2008 at 08:19 PM
What a great day with yummy stops along the way!! I too will miss your Fridays. I've gotten vicarious pleasure from your adventures. You should enlarge and frame your Brooklyn Bridge picture - it's magnificent! I'd put it in my office and I could see it in your apt.
Posted by: Lorraine | August 24, 2008 at 08:13 AM
This last summer Friday of the year was bittersweet -- look out for Autumn Saturdays next!
Posted by: Jonnazz | August 24, 2008 at 01:17 PM
...maybe we'll be able to squeeze in one more Summer Friday this week. A truncated one, but a Summer Friday nonetheless.
Posted by: Oatmeal Cookie Guy | August 25, 2008 at 07:38 PM
We went to the same cookie place in the same weekend! What are the odds? I could so easily spot your neat handwriting in the cookie book :o)
Posted by: IYC | August 25, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Hey, IYC. I couldn't believe it when you told me that yesterday morning. How bananas!
Posted by: Oatmeal Cookie Guy | August 26, 2008 at 09:02 AM