Big chocolate cake

The delectable brown edifice is completed. Three layers tower above a humble blue and white dinner plate, their moist dark secrets enrobed in a deep brown velvet coating. It does not need garnishes. It casts an impressive shadow.
Went out for a walk, up through Woodland Park, past the rabbit rocks, above and along the rose garden, and stopped in the Phinney Market for a small bottle of water. This little operation is opening an outpost in our neighborhood which they have named the Meridian Market, and the guy working up at the Phinney store said they were aiming for a Labor Day opening. It's a great place, with a deli, all kinds of tempting stock, even some produce. We used to have a fantastic produce store called M & R, which sadly folded after many years because of a fat-assed landlord who raised the rent on them. This guy has held himself out as a neighborhood advocate, but he drove out an institution. There's a vegan doughnut store there these days, which I could live without, but I suppose it's better than a lot of other things. It will be good to have a market within in few blocks.
Coming back home, I passed a hilly little meadow next to Green Lake. In the lengthening afternoon shadows, rabbits were gathering, occasionally detaching as a bunny-shaped shadow to forage elsewhere. Along the shady edges of the lake, duck-shaped shadows drifted.
The day is lovely beyond description.