Another Cheesy Mother's Day

Picnic Supplies arrive for an evening meal in Breckenridge Park

Yes, another cheesy Mother's Day.  Once Grant awoke after being up late with his Senior Prom, it was time to celebrate Mother's Day in the Suneson traditional manner, a picnic featuring exotic cheeses.

In year's past we have picnicked in Japanese Gardens in Fort Worth, rolling grassland preserves in Collin County, urban Dallas' White Rock Lake and various parks around the greater Metroplex; but this time around Mother selected the easy 3-mile drive to Breckenridge Park for an evening out-of-doors meal.

The basic foodstuffs are tradition, but each year the variety varies.  The basket is packed with 8 or 9 exotic cheeses, some lunch meats, fruit, crackers, bread, dessert and ginger beer with a few other bottles of exotic flavors.  This year's basket contained smoked Gouda, Point Reyes blue, Dill Havarti, Irish aged white cheddar, blue marble cheddar, an Italian hard cheese among others, red wine salami, fresh strawberries, Key Lime Soda and Australian Peachy drinks to go with the Ginger Beer, raspberry and mint filled Ghiradeli dark chocolate candies.

Afterward we drove to lowland nature preserve and wandered around in the evening light.  The trail was marked by plentiful signs warning that this was "Venomous Snake Habitat - Stay on the Trail!".  I thought this was either overly dramatic language or County lawyer's CYA hyperbole.  But dang!  If we did not encounter two very small Water Moccasins (Cotton Mouths) warming themselves at the edge of the trail.  We said our howdies and moved on, leaving them in peace to return to their loving mother waiting for them in the tall grass.

Fangs alot Mom!