I keep making links back to the same entry, and today I could almost copy-paste my dinner entry (third paragraph).  We went to the same restaurant called Sound Inn COA and began with bruschetta followed with Bleu de Bresse cheese and a Ceasar salad, and finished off by ordering the highlights of the previous visit, the healthy pork and the Hida beef.  Of course, I’d brought my camera to take food pictures, but put it in my pants pocket once seated and never again brought it out.  Kathy Cho I ain’t, and for once I regret it, because the deliciously tender Hida beef consisted of six thin rectangular slices of red meat lightly braised on the outside and draped like a fan over a mound of shredded carrots.  A vinegar sauce covered the meat at the bottom.  It looked like the bottom half of a hinamatsuri doll. 

So I can only offer a picture of two flowers instead.  I found them as I was leaving my Crime and Punishment park.