http://thehistoryhacker.com/th1s_1s_a_4o4.html The mountain laurel is on the way out, and the rosebays, Rhododendron Maximum, are now starting to bloom. It’s amazing how late they are here – they will be blooming through most of July. This is not a heavy-bloom year for them – almost all the plants I saw had far more seedpods than blooms. […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Rhododendrons in Bloom.
08-Jul-09From Overlook Mountain.
08-Jul-09I climbed Overlook Mountain, which overlooks Woodstock, just before heading down to the city. This is the view towards the northwest, from the fire tower.
The purpose of despotic government…
05-Jul-09… is revenue, saith Tom Paine. Here’s the latest adventure in this realm. I’m wrapping up a nine-day stay in the City, and have some time at long last to record a few of the many, many impressions. The Friday after Michael Jackson died I met some friends at a Soho apartment and we listened […]
It was a dark and stormy night…
09-Jul-09http://antihousewife.com/2010/09/fatbet-ftw?shared=email In high school we used to read the books put together by the Bulwer-Lytton contest organizers, a yearly contest for the worst opening sentence of the worst book never written. Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote innumerable novels, none of which promise well from their first pages. The Last Days of Pompeii begins thus: “Ho, Diomed, well met! […]