Last week, I spoke of black in the garden. Here’s an example, the dark foliage of sambucus nigra ‘Black Beauty.’ Even were we to have a freak mid-March snowstorm, spring is unstoppable now. Almost every…
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It’s cold here on the West Coast: seven degrees below zero, Celsius, last night, so the plumbing was carefully monitored. Taps came on with no problem this morning, always a relief (what we take for…
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It’s been dreary and cold this last week on the West Coast, and I’ve been dreaming about spring in Paris, especially since The Sartorialist is posting street fashion from that city right now following the…
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I wish . . . Je désire . . . to want what I have . . . A colleague shared this, one of his primary resolutions for 2008, with me, and I think it’s…
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I’m becoming convinced that protracted marking sessions effect bio-chemical changes which make a person appear very, very cranky. Imagine reading essays which begin “Historical aspects and events have never been so important as ever before”…
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