Garden Pic Wednesday: Gardenia Season!

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Yesterday we ate inside a local restaurant. We were so happy to enjoy indoor dining. It's a relatively new place that actually opened in March just prior to the big close down. Unlucky for them.
We got take-out once and were out and about and decided to see if we could pick up lunch there, since. We were delighted to discover people inside eating and we did, too. It's a counter service, where you order your food, then sit down. It's not a big place.
Their beef is steamed, then served on a 8" hoagie roll with a choice of cheese. Also you can top it with roasted bell peppers. I prefer their Italian sausage, though also served on 8" hoagie roll thick with melted provolone cheese. Yum.
They do great onion rings, so we had an order of those.
I actually just ate the other half of my sausage sandwich today for lunch. 
Salons/barbers were allowed to open here on May 11, too, so I quickly made a hair appointment!

  Today's Garden Pic is a fully open Gardenia blossom & bud.
This shrub is out near the mail-box and I can smell it's rich fragrance wafting around whenever I'm out watering the other flowers nearby. It has a Allspice scent. 
This Gardenia blooms first of the two kinds I have; the other has larger blossoms and should bloom within the next couple weeks.



Hubby with our visiting neighbor cat:
He's a very social cat; friendly, gentle, talkative and enjoys attention. Even a lap. He's figured out, since are in and out the door often and do give him attention because he is so sweet, hanging out on our patio is the best place to get that extra human company. He belongs to an elderly widow and her elderly son down the street, where he is fed and well cared for. He goes home for dinner and they keep him in the house with them at night.
Petting him gives us a little cat-therapy.




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