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we just got a heaping of snow out here in toronto. sigh.

Oh, I love those southern mixed pine and deciduous forests! Looking at the second photo, I can feel the thick, layered bark on the pine trees in my parents’ yard. *sigh*

We still haven’t gotten any snow here. Yesterday they mowed the university grounds. I’m wondering if winter is actually going to come this year.

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Astoria anymore…

she can spend 5 hours in a chilly room at the New York City library, and then give us these to chew on.  bakerina, you a treasury of your own.  but if you must- go on and read those books.* just yesterday, i picked up on of my mother’s books, called ‘the whitehouse cookbook’.  extremely old, but when actually read- reads as if certainly written by a man, for a woman.  it’s the attention to detail that separates us.  methinks.

Aaaah, wonderful photos to meditate with...thank you, Ms. Bakerina!

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 .

Where was the third picture taken?  Something in that photo is mesmerizing - perhaps the angle?  I keep clicking back to it…

I too have to chime in with my enjoyment of that 3rd photo especially.  If that building were a person I would want to be its friend.  Hell, I want to be that little building.

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. 

Is the recipe on your site for ‘The Trianon’ the recipe from ‘Growing up on the Chocolate Diet’?  Because, as I recall that is Julia Child’s version, not the original recipe.

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! 

Ah your photos gave me warmth.  But after reading ‘mouse’s link above regarding the San Jose photo, I feel ill equipped to add much to the conversation. That is a stunning show stopper that seems incredibly off the topic.  It was wonderful. 

While nmiguy certainly does not have the love for NYC (it is a Red Sox Yankees thingy) I certainly can see why the Big Apple appeals to you, Bakerina.

Whenever I’ve gone into the woods in the past few years, it’s been crappy out. You’re lucky. I look forward to the spring so maybe I can go take some pictures of outhouses. That would be a nice coffee table book.

You know, Bill, I’d buy it.