I’m so happy to be heading to Carlisle with my friends Susan and Houda to enjoy an ice cream sundae and look at plants. The heat wave has subsided and it will be a great weekend for walks with Tom.
Have a lovely cool weekend.
- Silver Linings: The Unexpected Beauty of Covid Hair — A great photo essay on not coloring it anymore. (The New Yorker)
- Know Your Onions (and Shallots and Leeks and Ramps) — This is a good primer on the allium vegetable family. (The New York Times)
- Bent Reality — These images will have you tilting your head sideways. (kottke.org)
- Frozen Pimm’s Cups — The cocktail that we absolutely needed during last week’s heat wave. No worries, more heat is coming. (Joy the Baker)
- For a quick meal on a warm evening, try this brown rice, spinach and mint salad. (Sea Salt and Sailor Stripes)
- Goodness: A Never-Before-Documented Flower Blooms on One of World’s Rarest Trees – A Hopeful Sign For a Comeback — I’m glad that I had the chance to see the flower! (Good News Network)
About the photo: A red canoe in the mist, on the shore of Edgartown Great Pond, Martha’s Vineyard.