I made some bread last night and then, because my grandchild who is madly allergic to dairy will be in my house briefly, I greased the pans with coconut oil. I've done this in the past and it mostly worked. This time it did NOT work, and when I tried to release the bread from [...]
I was sent this picture to post if I wanted to. It's a Baltimore Oriole, and I love the photo. Once I was watching a cardinal and wondering idly how such bright red birds were able to vanish. The cardinal turned and I saw how the sudden dull red on its back allowed it to [...]
I wanted an image of a particular event, and couldn't find a good one but having arrived at the National Gallery of Art in DC (pixelated version) I saw that they have an exhibition entitled, Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World. The picture illustrating the (online) brochure is lovely. Study of Butterfly and [...]
Yesterday was not Friday but I posted anyway. So today I'm offering a link to the obituary of a man I never heard of. (But I should have.) The anecdote at the end about the Beatles and Yoko Ono is quite entertaining. I also love the part where he was a "Catholic atheist" because only [...]
I was struck by the beauty of Fitzgerald's imagery. ... drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam ... It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey-turning, gold-turning light. The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds [...]
