Snow in the Garden -- Oranges in the Breakfast Room

In 2004, friend Shirley Ann and I took a trip to Ohio to visit Daughter Sarah

and her Andy

Knowing our love of gardens, she took us to the Kingswood Gardens nearby to tour the gardens

(and visit the gift shop)

I came home with

A calamondin orange

(picture taken I'm sure in the winter of 2004)

That orange tree was one reason I wanted a 4 season "porch" on the back of Linderhof

For once we had that porch, it thrived

The tree in 2015 -- after I planted in a bigger pot

It summers outside and winters indoors

It's happy in this little corner of the sunroom

And it's grown!

And continues to be a prolific bearer of little calamondin oranges

My harvest this year

Which I made into:

Individual Vintage Prize-winning Calamondin Orange bundt cakes

For I had company for lunch:

I dressed them up with a dab of whipped cream

and calamondin orange slices

Plated and ready to be served

Dessert and coffee 

The orange cake was a great way to end the meal!

But it made more than the four I needed so . . 

My tea treat the next day was orange cake

Alas, served plain!

It was as good the next day and plain as it was the first day and fancy!

The recipe was in my column yesterday in

The Fort Scott Tribune and The Nevada Daily Mail