booker street

hello again

the best thing about getting a coffee from the blue ridge store is that when you pick up an empty cup it is smooth and when you fill it with hot coffee it blisters in your hand. it's an amazing sensation and an ingenious solution to the scalding hot paper cup which requires a ridiculously-named "java jacket" or a second cup. this, and the cheapness, motivate me to get coffee at the blue ridge store, not the quality. definitely not the quality.

i was on the radio on saturday; well, no, it was sunday actually, 1-3am. what fun! i was on so that i could train a new dj - a girl who was relocated here from tulane university in new orleans. i felt that in some small way i was helping out. of course, this girl was hardly stranded on the roof of her house for days...

it was fun being on the radio again. i should really do it more often.

work on the house has stalled for the moment. the weather has just been too nice here and i can't stand to be cooped up in the house. i did transplant 3 rose bushes to get them out of the most ridiculous spots in the yard. i hope they survive the transplant.

all of the clematis i found in the spring have bloomed into the most beautiful plants. the vines are covered, literally blanketed, in tiny white, star-shaped blooms that have a light scent. they are stunning! i think it is called sweet autumn clematis (clematis paniculata). it looks like this - all over our yard!

my elephant ears and caladiums are doing great as well. the elephant ears are so big they have to be supported in order to keep them upright!

my caladiums are so varied in their coloration and fill in the space underneath the very tall elephant ears. i wish i were a landscape architect.

looks like i might become a published author... i was asked to write an afterword for a photography book that will come out next spring, i think. i'm quite pleased with my afterword and would be pretty proud to see it in print. then maybe i could convince taunton press to let me write updating the classic american foursquare as a result. i should really work on a proposal for that.

that's it for this post. i'm pretty bored at work, so maybe i'll come up with something else soon!

posted by bls @ 10:06 AM