bumbling along

After the morning damp burned off, we had another fabulous late summer day. There's a gelato joint on the main shopping street, with the attention-getting name of "Fainting Goat." They do have a flavor made with goat's milk, and it has something in it the woman co-owner called "mastica"; she said it was similar to the flavoring in Greek retsina wine. They gave me a taste, and it was wonderful, sweet and a bit pungent with just that hint of evergreen. I've never tasted anything like it. Stuck with one of my favorite gelati flavors, stracciatella, I think it's spelled, vanilla with chocolate seams running through it, very dark chocolate ones. One does need relief on a very warm day.