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I’ve spent most of the morning photographing flowers and other plants here in Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge west of Pasadena. Lovely; I’m grateful for this beauty, for the opportunity to see it and make photographs of it. A small snap below, with the promise of a gallery of more to come:
Just shot some photos of a small coyote in Descanso Gardens. Will post the best (!?) one soonest.
Clark’s Trading Post needs a new Wolfman! Auditions are this weekend. The Union leader has a story here. I know Janine and Janne used to drive by Clark’s and scream “Free the bears!” and that Janine at least has taught her kids to do the same…. I found the link at Making Light, a website … Read more
Just picked up our food for a hotel-room picnic from Papillote French Cuisine To-Go, a lovely little French kitchen near our hotel. I picked a mushroom soup (not creamy) to start, duck confit for me and a salmon and asparagus quiche for Ellen—both come with green salad and the chef’s ginger vinaigrette—and for dessert the … Read more
Some kind of wreck closed I-75 at exit 32 south of Macon—just now we had to exit the highway and get right back on. No visible wreckage but more than a half dozen emergency vehicles, and an ambulance pulling away just as we took the exit ramp. I wanted a pic of all the police … Read more
Taking Greyhound to Savannah to see Ellen. Shes been in south Georgia all week seeing clients in schools and school systems, and ended in Savannah. The forecast includes rain unfortunately, but Savannah in bloom should be lovely anyway. More later…. Edit: removed f@¢&ed up image-embed code; testing a fix now. Later edit: image file got … Read more
A quick link indicating my frustrated desire to return to Paris. That is all.Cheap hotels in Paris. Special offers on Cheap Paris hotels at Hotels.com.
Film treasures of Europe available online: This French Life
A different Tim than me, of course. Ellen’s colleague from work, Tim Stewart, met us in Jonesborough Tennessee for a thumping good breakfast at the Blair-Moore House bed and breakfast, where Ellen and I stayed last night. Then we went to hear Sheila Kay Adams at the international Storytelling Center. (I’m on my phone now; ... Read more
Serious Eats is a seriously fun food blog, and while they enjoy and usually write well about fine dining, they also know how to point readers and eaters to good inexpensive eats as well. My mother – a.k.a. Mom, a.k.a. Nana – is travelling to Montreal and Quebec City with a dear friend from Switzerland … Read more