In the preceding post I mentioned that we recently hosted a meeting of our local garden club. After the presentation refreshments are traditionally served. At one point the refreshments were getting quite elaborate and some members complained that this put pressure on them to provide food and that this made them reluctant to host meetings. So the head of the club announced that in future refreshments would be limited to coffee and cookies. This lasted for a couple of meetings, but you just can’t stop people from making things and bringing them along. So eventually what was supposed to be coffee and cookies became a full lunch. This was the case with our meeting. This photograph shows about half of the refreshments table.

Included in the picture are some cucumber sandwiches – a traditional British delicacy. My wife was going to make them, but she got caught up doing other things so I ended up doing it. I’m familiar with simple cucumber sandwiches i.e. buttered bread with cucumbers inside. Pretty boring and I don’t generally like them. However, my wife’s version included mayonnaise, mustard and chives, which was a big improvement. I must say that I rather enjoyed them.

It was taken with a Sony NEX 5N and Zeiss 58mm f2 Biotar pretty much wide-open. I think it has a lovely “glow”.