We just spent two days on the island, closing up the house for the winter.  Weather ran the gamut, from perfect fall afternoon, through rain showers and windy — the usual mix.  This post is about the beach, and a very good vegetable soup with a friend for dinner — not related topics, but contiguous.

The beach itself was lovely, pristinely clean and attractively bordering sunsets and kitesurfers alike:

For dinner the last night, our friend, Steve,  joined us.  Barbara made a superb vegan vegetable soup, which is the main thing I wanted to share with you.  This was preceded by spaghetti with parsley and garlic, and followed by a salad with green leaf lettuce, endive, and a farmer’s market tomato.  Dessert was Sweet Inspirations’ chocolate-covered cranberries and pieces of dark chocolate butter crunch.  Wine was my dear friend, Li Veli Salice Salentino Passamante, my go-to Negroamaro this fall.  Here is the soup: