A quick country drive reaffirmed one of my favorite summer luxuries - visiting farm stands. Walker's Roadside Stand in Little Compton, Rhode Island always brings me a particular sense of nostalgia. I have memories of visiting Walker's as a young child with my Mother and Sister Caroline after a beach day. I can still hear our beach chairs clinking in the back of our station wagon as we pulled into the gravel drive, and our small sandy hands devouring juicy peaches. We'd select dinner provisions for the evening and snack on snap peas on our way home. We were of course too young to appreciate these moments like I do now...
Warren's Point
A few days prior, my sister and I ventured down to Warren's Point in Little Compton, Rhode Island for an afternoon picnic. Though visited on a gusty April afternoon, Warren's Point is rather the epitome of a serene summer oasis, a tiny gem of our precious coastline with classic New England architecture, sweeping views of the Atlantic and for the most part, rather underdeveloped thanks to the 1938 hurricane. Provisions were procured at Provender Fine Foods followed by a visit to The Cottage at Four Corners where to my delight, discovered AERIN's new lighting collection on display. (Obsessed with this sexy antique brass and black Clemente Table Lamp). In the summer, we would have most certainly secured an ice cream cone across the street at Gray's Ice Cream....