Where Have I Been???

It's been such a long time! I've never gone this long and the story is too long to tell. Suffice it to say things have changed and are now beginning to settle into getting back to the new normal. Same house. Same camera...and me.  I want to make a push to post regularly again, at least weekly.  I will try...if anyone is left who checks in.

I've been reading, here are some of the titles:

Spirals in Time
The Narrow Edge
Lisette's List (again)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (again)
When Books Went to War
Prisoners of Geography
and currently:
Hamilton (on going)
Americans in Paris (on going)
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms (on going)

The garden is in full swing with peas, onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, beans, asparagus, cabbages, and assorted herbs.

That's the mercifully short version of life around here.  Oh and there's always knitting, just not as much...

In bocca al lupo. m

Summer Reading and Raymond Chandler...

This just follows along with my return to the library.  I am also revisiting titles and authors from summer readings a long time ago.  Philip Marlowe and L.A. of the forties, it was always raining, steamy, and lush...

In bocca al lupo.  m (no v)

Back to the Library

Bookstores have all but disappeared.  I admit that the idea of a device such as an iPad having the capacity to hold a library full of books was intriguing to me. I envisioned the classic oak, tenon joined, library table in a room surrounded by windows and French doors.  Resting in the center of this venerable old table would be a simple tablet device and that would be the library. But, you know what?  I miss holding a book and reading a printed word off of paper.  Now that there are no bookstores locally, I have rediscovered the library. I've dusted off my card and have been enjoying carrying home a stack of novels that I can disappear into.  I'm also enjoying the fact that in our area here, we still have a couple of the old Carnegie libraries still in service. It's nice to just pull a book off the shelf and sink into a comfortable old chair and read by the light streaming in from some beautiful old windows. A brief escape.

In bocca al lupo.  m (no v)

Still Life

Summer still life.

Summer reading.

And listening to baseball on the radio.

At least it sounds idyllic.

In bocca al lupo.  m (no v)