And now I'm really ooooold . . .

Well, at least I can begin to get the senior discount at the movies.  I had a very nice birthday today, I got some nice perfume and a t-shirt (both very welcome), and Ed and I had a lovely lunch at a place called Le Cigare Volant (the flying cigar), named after an incident in France in the 1800's when the people in a local area saw a flying saucer that looked like a cigar :)

They have a "small plates" menu that is just fabulous.  We had:

green bean salad with a quail

egg on top and the tiniest tomatoes

you've ever seen

incredible corn pudding served

in a tiny cast-iron pan

a duck confit "cigar" with leek "ash"

it looked like a cigar.

pork shoulder sliders with Chinese 

buns and coconut dipping sauce

and

smoked fingerling potatoes in a

little flower pot with aioli on the bottom

(the chef gifted us with this because

Ed is in the restaurant business)

This restaurant is very special and I was so glad to enjoy my birthday lunch there!  

 Another Big Sur picture from our Friday trip

So now I'm off to paint -- I swore that I would spend some time painting today, but of course as soon as we came home, I needed to take a nap :)  

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, if you have any left!