orange and white

Cox Arboretum, Dayton, Ohio, August

While the knives seek the pumpkins
the fish glides along.


Nashville, October

Who will tell the zinnias
it's long past Labor Day?

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A fun thing: last week, a verse I wrote was selected for Pilgrims' Stride, and today the verse to follow it was picked. The most fun part seeing the sixty-some directions people pursued...

A frustrating thing: local businesses failing to return phone calls.

Today's work will include: mixing ink and cutting paper.

Today's cooking will include: Greek cinnamon chicken. Maybe. The recipe looked like just the thing when I was reading it in bed last night, but we have neither bay leaves nor dry white wine in the house, nor (uncharacteristically) onions (not counting the scant quarter-cup in my freezer). Hmmm.

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Calvados

Jason Wilson, quoting Calvados distiller Guillaume Drouin:

As the fruit ripens on the tree, the cows grazing in the orchard start getting hungry for juicy apples, and begin bumping the trunks to make them fall. What apples do fall, the cows devour off the ground. "The cows are doing my job for me," he said. "Because the first apples they make fall are overripe or diseased or somehow unusable. And once we see them begin to eat those apples, we move the cows from the orchard. That's when I know it's about time for harvest."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/travel/in-normandy-young-ambition-stirs-a-traditional-brandy.html

(When I left Borders in 1998, the history buyer and the sports buyer presented to me a bottle of Calvados, which had been discussed I think during one of our many late nights at our desks.)

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