Photoessay #2045 - Fruit plate (for a grad party)

This late afternoon and evening, Dennis and I went to a graduation party for Susanna's friend Megan and her roommates who will graduate from a private college in Tacoma tomorrow.  The party guests were almost all family of the soon-to-be-graduates.  And us.  And Megan and Alex who I know very well, the doctor couple who have started a used toy store where Megan and Susanna work.  And their three kids who we all also know.

We enjoyed ourselves, beautiful weather so we could all be in the backyard of their modest rental near the school.  Barbecued chicken and salmon, clams, potato salad, other things.  I made a fruit plate, going for more finger food rather than cut up fruit you have to spoon out.  Susanna was concerned that somebody else was bringing fruit.  But my plate went out early in the party and (just look how yummy it looks) most of it went quickly.  The other fruit people came later and they had more cut up fruit in a bowl.  So it all worked out (as it does in almost all pot lucks).

None of the pictures of the party struck me but I did think my fruit plate was beautiful.  Alas, no local fruit, probably the carbon cost of that plate in the importation of the fruit is huge.  From Mexico and California mainly.  But it looks so pretty, flashy even.  (the ants are painted onto the table cloth, don't worry).