Summer Days, Serendipity and a Cherished Colleague

August 1, 2026

Summer Days, Serendipity and a Cherished Colleague

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Some posts are long, some posts are short.

Some are organic, some are responding to a prompt, and some are responding to external inspiration.

THIS post is a response to INTERNAL inspiration.

I have new peaches from the Hancock County Farmers Market (yay!) and I was searching the Glover Gardens blog for every mention of the word “peach”.

I found this post from 2017, a lovely experience when an esteemed colleague in another country, Anne, made one of my recipes and shared a picture with me.

Anne also shared a recipe for a summer cocktail, the one she enjoyed with the goat cheese salad recipe I had posted. It included peach schnapps, which is why it surfaced when I searched for the word “peach”.

SERENDIPITY! (My favorite word.)

I was happy to find this today because we are truly in the dog days of summer, and I know that cocktail will make its way into our Happy Cocktail routine before long.

Today, we are at Gumbo Cove, and had different cocktails: a Paper Plane for me, and an Old Fashioned for The Grill-Meister.

Suffice it to say that I will share our versions of the Paper Plane and Old Fashioned soon.

But finding that old post brought back much more than a cocktail recipe. It brought back memories of Anne, and of the years we spent together as colleagues and friends.

So I’d like to share a few more pictures of the lovely Anne, my Scottish friend.

Anne at a learning conference we attended together in London, 2019
Anne and me at that same conference
The two of us at a learning and knowledge management award ceremony at the Dorchester in London in 2016
A Christmas carnival in Glasgow, 2015; we had an evening out, just the two of us
Posing by the tree at a restaurant during a team dinner in Glasgow in 2015

Colleagues come and go in a long career, like cocktails come and go in your tastes.

But some, you remember, and cherish.

Anne is one of them. And I will toast her when we make the Summer Days cocktail again soon.

© 2026, Glover Gardens



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