What to Do With Bok Choy?

I planted way too much bok choy this year.  I started some inside and sowed seeds in the garden too.  What was I thinking?  I use bok choy in stir fry with chicken, pork or beef and that's the extent of my repertoire for bok choy.

Any recipe suggestions?  I know I can pick some and keep in my refrigerator for a week or more but I may have to just give it away or compost the rest.  It will bolt soon.

Spinach is doing really well as are my lettuces.

Here's one head of bok choy harvested last week.

Here's another harvested Sunday evening.

Green leaves chopped to add to stir fry at the end stage.

Chicken marinating.

Stems of bok choy in the wok.

It was a delicious meal.  But what else can I use it for?

See other harvests at Daphne's Dandelions.

Color Combos

It's iris time in the garden.  I am always struck by the combinations of colors that develop with new blossoms.

Around the Pond Garden the pink of the wiegela with the light purple of the lilac to the left of it combine with the purple of the Siberian iris in front and the green of the ostrich ferns.

The yellow water iris are just peeking out.

Here it's the red of the Japanese maple in the Glen Garden contrasting with all the other greens.

In the Perennial Garden when these two irises bloom I always wonder if I should move one.  The different purple combination is unsettling to me. One is more pink and the other more lavender.

Now these two iris are an interesting pairing of colors.

The iris and the columbine are the same exact color.  How did that happen?

The deepest purple iris in the background goes well with the iris in the foreground.

The clematis flower and the translucent green of the leaves are a nice combination.

More flowers yet to bloom in months ahead in the Perennial Garden.

Thanks for stopping by.

Georgetown University Commencement

The graduate school at Georgetown had its commencement Friday morning.  Daughter Sarah was there to receive her Masters degree in Asian Studies.  We were there to cheer her accomplishment.

It was a beautiful morning.  Clock chimed 9 and commencement started on time.

 Planes flew over periodically north to south headed to Reagan National Airport.  We expected they would drone out the speakers but that wasn't the case.

Assembled professors on the dais and graduates in front.

Georgetown was founded by one of the Carrolls of Maryland who was a Jesuit priest.

The scene around as we sat.

The second part of the commencement featured only the School of Foreign Service and lucky for us it was at the same location.  Other schools exited and went elsewhere to have their names read.

Here's Sarah just before her name was read.

Here she is with two friends.

And here she is with William, her husband of 4 months.

Here we all are (except for son-in-law Matt who'd didn't make the trip).  Granddaughter A (face hidden) in Emily's arms.

Road Scholar Trip - Day 4

We took our very first Road Scholar Trip titled "Mark Twain and the Mississippi, Lewis and Clark and The Civil War".  The draw was Mark Twain but all of it was wonderful.

See Day 1 here, Day 2 here, and Day 3 here.

Day 4 was devoted to Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens  We boarded a bus, a different one from the day before, and traveled to Hannibal, MO.  We got to meet Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, and tour Samuel Clemens' boyhood home.  There was a wonderful museum in town.  Lunch was on board a riverboat with a ride then on the Mississippi River.  After we returned back to the hotel that evening we had a trivia game on the topics we had learned about.  My team won!

Here are some photos from this last full day of our Road Scholar trip.

These two were 8th graders part of several teams that reenact a scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

This was supposed to be the home of the family that was the basis of the Huckleberry Finn character.

Inside the Clemens house.

The Thatcher home.

Our riverboat.

Leaving the dock for a ride on the Mississippi..

Sun was bright but breeze was strong and cool.

One of these islands figured in the Tom Sawyer story.

 Friday after a speaker on Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri we headed home stopping at the Indian Mounds in Illinois.  More on that in another post.