Dream of Picnic

With all the cold weather Houston has been having lately, I have been missing the opportunity to take a nice picnic.  I've only been on a few picnics in my life.  It seems it is something I always want to do, but never quite actually end up doing it.  Recently, I had a quick bite to eat outside with a friend, and flocks of birds were flying overheard.

Hopefully, with the upcoming Spring.....a nice picnic here and there can be something we all actually end up doing some more of....

They say the history of picnics began as an activity for the wealthy.  Medieval hunting feasts, Renaissance-era country banquets, and Victorian garden parties lay the foundation for today's leisurely repast. Picnics, as we Americans know them today, date to the middle of the 19th century. Although the "grand picnic" is generally considered a European concept, culinary evidence confirms people from other parts of the world engage in similar practices.