1. Text messages and Facebook updates indicating that a crowd of my friends have got engaged on Valentine's Day.
2. Gardeners carrying the remains of a laurel tree to a trailer look like shaggy leaf monsters.
3. The smell of chicken soup creeps through the house, quietly putting everything to rights.
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...
