Quote de jour
" A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

~ Charles Baudelaire


This is my maple tree at its peak. It's down hill from now on. The wind and rains have begun the gradual strip tease.

Every so often, it's a pleasure to re-read old writers. It's like visiting an old friend. What a treat to read the newly released Hemingway classic: A Moveable Feast in it's newly restored edition. In 1964, it was published posthumously and many sections of the original manuscript left out or changed. It makes this reader want to jump on plane to Paris tout de suite. Its mood and era pairs well with Hemingway's contemporary, F.Scott Fitzgerald collection of short stories.


The usual magazine mountain dwindled to a mole hole this week. C'est la vie.