Rebecca Weger

It hasn’t been the easiest week in our house.  We’re both under big deadlines and lots of pressure.  Then we ended up unexpectedly home tonight with a little bit of downtime. As much as we love cooking, neither one of us was quite up for expending any extra energy.  We opted for a rare week night out.

Local organic grass-fed beef burger at Stella's

Tonight was an easy choice – as we realized we both wanted burgers.  There are only two options in town that serve burgers I’m comfortable eating and we went with our favorite – Stella’s.  They serve local, organic grass-fed burgers and I love their salads.  They have a solid wine selection and a bit of a hipster ambience that I don’t see around here much.  We go up perhaps as often as every six weeks or so.

I love to walk after dinner. A quick drive back down the hill from Collegetown, park the car and head off again: our neighborhood Gimme! Coffee.  We are are blessed to live in one of the most beautiful places, and our evening walk took us through quiet neighborhoods and old Victorian houses, past earshot glimpses of a performance on The Commons, and up to one of my favorite waterfalls, the lower falls of the Cascadilla Gorge (take a look at those gorgeous pictures).  Its one of our favorite places to go in the evenings, and tonight it was immense.  We had an intense storm in the the late afternoon, and the falls were thundering, the water a bit muddy around the edges.  The sun sets facing the falls, so there’s always light for just a little bit longer. Tonight we were the only ones there.