Friday, November 12, 2004

Flowers are best, frying pan and skiing.

1. I pass a house on the way to work with flowers painted under the eaves. They are quite faded and very high up, so it was a while before I noticed them. But now I smile every time I see them.

2. Discovering that if you fry curly kale with hardly any oil it goes like crispy seaweed.

3. I'm going skiing in January - bought the tickets and now it really feels like I'm on my way.

Magnolia, pagoda and station.

1. Late magnolias -- always a pleasure. 2. We like everything about the pagoda -- including the long climb to the top -- but particularly th...