Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Borrow this, long rain and family.

1. Susan speaks with such passion about Wilkie Collins that I go home with her to borrow The Woman in White.

2. We've settled in for a long rain. The birds are still singing, and the sky is flat white.

3. It's my father's birthday -- a good excuse for a phone call and a quick chat.

Volunteers, eleven and bright crayons.

1. Volunteers growing out of the yellow clay on the edge of the building site: a castor oil plant with spiked green seed pods; and a couple ...