My experience has been that the Dutch do not cut and gather from their gardens the blossoms growing there. Suggest as I might that the enjoyment is prolonged. it doesn’t happen. These stems are a bit more than a yard in length. What happens when beautiful, strong iris, can not support themselves in an upright …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
French Yogurt Cake
This is a first. A recipe. This has become a neighborhood favorite. It is moist – key attribute, easy to make, fail-proof and above all delicious. It is the olive oil I found so intriguing. I believe it is important to use ‘Turkish’ yogurt which is a strained yogurt which means the whey portion of the milk …
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Leaky Craft
In the playground at the Beach
Raining Fish?
The ‘Raining Cats and Dogs’ * I know, but fish? This day, a total of nine fish in a span of 3 meters. They are dropped from the air members of the flocks of Great Cormorants that pass through each spring on their way to somewhere else. They are large, shades of black and bigger …
Do-eee
This is what one woman says to another when taking leave. What makes it unique, the tonal quality is an octave higher than normal speech. Men do not say this. I asked my new friends and no one had given it notice; only an outsider would hear it. Maybe there is a secret meaning? I …
The Museum Card
This has to be the ‘buy of …” you fill in the blank. Payment of an annual subscription fee and one has access to all of the museums in the country and a host of other attractions. After payment, the mail brings a plastic credit card sized identification complete with your picture in the corner. …
Tulips
There are certain things of which one can never have enough. Me? spring tulips! Yesterday was a bench mark, 5 bunches at one go. Apparently the farmers are stymied in export, so they have made a deal with the grocery stores to offer them at likely wholesale price. It certainly is a positive effort to …
UPdate
You remember the multi-tiered story of the visit to this museum. Reader E, sent pictures of small, smart handbags, and I was going to ask the museum if there was interest for their collection. But alas, as you see from the link above, the end is in sight. Will they be auctioned off? Hopefully not …
Reader H sent this:
too funny not to share!