Book of the Week

I highly recommend "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett. This is an unusual story about a group of terrorists that takes a group of international businessmen and one female opera singer hostage. The story explores the relationships that develop between the individuals, hostage and terrorist alike, through the use of Gen, a Japanese translator as well  as through the language of music. I give this book a thumbs up.

A New Perspective

For those of you in the know, I have recently (today) shut down my cooking blog. I had plans for it, but... oh well. Because of this, and the limited gardening season here, I've decided to include other things on this blog to make it more interesting. You might even see a post about cooking once in a while :-)

Where I've Been

Nowhere special. Just right here. In Maryland all gardening pretty much stops in October with the planting of the bulbs and resumes when said bulbs finally emerge. I planted about fifty huge daffodils in my front yard last fall so we should have quite a show come March or so.

I did plant some Paperwhites (stinky) and some amaryllis this winter. The amaryllis are still blooming.