Mop Philosophy Monday

 Have you ever noticed that groupings of three or five are somehow so cohesive and pleasing to the eye?
There is a design lesson in there somewhere that I am not qualified to give.  In the meantime, this is the way I like to group together three Emma Bridgewater vessels for the simple roses from our garden.

I like the way the three together look from a distance: the blue, the white and the vivid pinks.

The beautiful binding on this book eerily echoes the design on the EB vessels.
Have you read The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits?  I loved it.

 As far as recent trickery goes, you'll be very pleased to know that I hid MrBP's Father's Day gift from him in plain sight.

A wrapped book hidden in plain sight, hehehe.

 All this past week the wrapped book lay quite peacefully on the fireplace mantel, undetected.
The book inside?  Well, have you read anything about The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks?  It sounds excellent, fingers crossed our MrBP likes it.

 Just to cover all the bases I did procure a bottle of MrBP's favourite scotch whiskey:

Bowmore

 Oil pastels are notoriously difficult to work with but look at the magic created by Middle Rascal Daughter:

 Though she's knee-deep into her Classics degree I really admire the way she's kept up with her artistic hobbies.  Art as a practice is such a lovely outlet for creativity and emotion, don't you think?

As far as news from the Mop Philosophy Kitchen, I'm happy to report that I successfully wrestled with 18 pounds of asparagus these last weeks.  Have I mentioned that we have a friend who is a litigator by day and a gentleman farmer on the weekends?  He does grow the best asparagus you ever could taste:

Mostly I roasted it.

 We ate a LOT of roasted asparagus and then I lost my mind and decided to bake up some asparagus breadsticks:

Sounds weird but they turned out quite well.
It was simple pizza dough with asparagus pressed in, salted and baked.

 I served them with a red lentil dahl:

 In sartorial news I've been wearing denim, chambray and blue, blue, blue.  You can check it all out on the Frock Philosophy blog.

Eileen Fisher denim chambray dress.
Running out the door to get into some mischief.

Thank you for sticking with me here on the blog you Darling Tooties.
Hope your Monday is happy and your whole week too,
xoxDani