Raspberry & Almond Coconut Crumble Cake

"This is June, the month of grass and leaves...already the aspens are trembling again and a
new summer is offered to me."

~ Henry David Thoreau, Journal, June 6, 1857

Thanks to a jeweled trove of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, my sluggish refrigerator is frisky and full. Milk and cream and olives have taken an apprehensively stoic stance behind the flourish of red & purple madness. Berries have tumbled and bounced their way into just about every meal and (floor!). Wintery neurosis has fled, finally, and I'm constantly falling in love with the tousled nature of June - even as I feel the soft, red stained crush beneath my careless left slipper.


If only I could press these untroubled days between the pages of an earthy tome; one that is rugged enough to hold onto a galaxy of feelings yet laced with a leafy gentleness capable of retaining the scent of grass and mint and raspberry-tinged cereal milk.
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