Celebrating the End of Summer in Maltby

Last night, we got the neighborhood together and had a lovely Italian dinner at Maltby Pizza and Pasta, located next to the Maltby Cafe.  With the dark and short days coming soon, we felt it was appropriate to celebrate the lovely weather we've enjoyed for the last six weeks and make up for the long days ahead spent indoors.

They've remodeled the restaurant, and added space for a half-dozen more tables.  The atmosphere was lovely, and late-afternoon sunlight filtered through the blinds as we perused our menus and made our selections (do we choose the "Big Nardone" pizza, or the Pesto Tortellini?).

The stories we shared were great, and times like these bring depth to our neighborly relationships.  After dinner, we came back to our place for homemade apple pie (made with five varieties of the apples from our mini-orchard), and Kelly brought three pints of wonderful organic ice cream from the Snohomish Ice Cream Company (one block from the Maltby Cafe).  Nirvana!

We talked until dark, enjoyed Starbucks coffee with our dessert, and made plans for a holiday dessert in the near future.

Here's a picture of the mural on the wall at Maltby Pizza and Pasta.  I can almost smell the freshly-baked baguette, and hear the crunch of the bicycle tires on the cobbled alley.