Les Fougeres

It has become a tradition to celebrate Nico & Marcia's birthday with dinner at Les Fougeres in Chelsea, Quebec. The restaurant is in an old wooden house with a wraparound porch that overlooks a huge vegetable & flower garden on the edge of a maple forest. We share wine and several courses on a screened porch as the sun goes down and shades the area below where nasturtiums scent the air and ring the edges of corn, beans, tomatoes, squash and bouquet flowers. Lawn paths run between the sections, leading around corners of hollyhock and sunflowers. The setting sun glistens patches of gold at the tops of the maple trees, that rustle in the wind. We cheer to the birthday duo, then set Zoe free to frolic through the garden.