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Bake, in the Bay Area it’s 60 degrees and my lawn needs mowing.  Roses are well on their way to blooning.  Remind me again why you live in NYC.

’mouse, honey, I have my reasons.

Okay, I’ll fess up.  I’m mainly here for the cockfighting.  When you live in NYC, you’re never more than a $2.00 subway ride from a good cockfight.  It’s true! 

All that cannot begin to compete with the world famous symbol of San Jose, CA .

My, aren’t you all such sweeties!  Thank you, dear ones.

Pattie and Owen, all three of these pictures were taken during my stay in Arkansas last summer.  The first picture is on the grounds of the Crescent Hotel.  The middle picture is a stretch of woods on the hill between the Crescent and the writers’ colony where I lived for a month.  The bottom picture was taken on one of my many walking tours around Eureka Springs.  There is a portion of Kansas Street that is a steep, hilly dirt road, so it doesn’t get as much traffic as the surrounding streets, and it was while walking up it that I spotted this carriage house.  It struck me as very painterly, i.e. if I weren’t there to see it in three dimensions, I would have thought that the house had just been painted there.  I love that tangly wooden fence, too; the whole scene, both in two and three dimensions, just felt so otherworldly to me.  I’m so glad that other people see something beautiful in it as well, and that it’s not just some stubborn quirk of my eye. 

anon, the Trianon recipe is from Growing Up on the Chocolate Diet.  According to Mrs. Brody, she and Julia Child (along with Maida Heatter) were all interested in trying to crack the code on the cake.  At the time, Mrs. Child had a cookery column in McCall’s magazine and published her version of the Trianon as “Le Gateau Victoire au Chocolat Mousseline” in her column.  I have never seen Mrs. Child’s recipe, so if Mrs. Brody’s recipe bears any resemblance to Mrs. Child’s recipe, I can’t confirm.

Many thanks for stopping by! 

You know, Bill, I’d buy it.