grab yer mug and a spoon

rows of pots filled with hot soup,
homemade desserts,
bottles of beer and wine filled the tables.
there were babies, children, grownups, and critters
milling around, waiting for the judges to have the first taste.
butternut/peanut butter,
beef stew,
apple curry,
thai chicken coconut,
spicy-pumpkin-ground-nut goodness,
black bean/sweet potato,
and, of course, my creamy white bean and chorizo soup
were just a few of the entries in this years
soup cook-off in
my neighborhood.


"painted ladies" charles village, baltimore.

nights like these,
make me realize how much i really love
baltimore.