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  • My favorite bird site in January 2023.

    birds at backyard feeder, snowy fence in background

    25 January 2023
  • North End wisdom

    City street at night with sign "Laundry Today or Naked Tomorrow!"

    20 December 2022
  • Taking a much-deserved break from the house-moving activities.

    11 December 2022
  • Sunset on the Charles River yesterday ⛵️

    29 October 2022
  • “Alpine Highball”: gin, yellow chartreuse, Campari, orange-rosemary soda

    5 August 2022
  • 1… 2… 3… Four on the Floor @ Artifact Cider Project

    30 July 2022
  • Lunch view 🌆

    27 July 2022
  • Like Sunday morning

    15 May 2022
  • Seeing all of the unmasked, coughing people in the airport is gross. 😷

    28 April 2022
  • They’re not yet in season, of course, but the supermarket strawberries looked good this weekend. Macerated with lemon and splash of gin and served over gluten-free sponge.

    26 March 2022
  • Window shopping in Staunton, Virginia

    25 November 2021
  • Night walk in Salem

    (iPhone night mode shot)

    23 October 2021
  • ⛵️

    17 October 2021
  • 8 September 2021
  • Visiting Longhopes Donkey Shelter in Bennett, Colorado.

    5 September 2021
  • I can sew when I must, but it isn’t a hobby. However, I am endlessly fascinated by mid-19th century tech.

    (At the Cherry Hill Farmhouse museum in Falls Church)

    8 August 2021
  • ⛵️

    16 May 2021
  • #ThirstyThursday : it’s nearly Friday

    8 April 2021
  • It’s quite a relief to return to dining on the deck again.

    12 March 2021
  • Chilly weather requires soup for dinner.

    23 January 2021
  • Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, Virginia

    17 January 2021
  • This year has been tiring, with far too little joy. I guess that’s why I thought I’d assemble the Christmas tree 2 weeks too early. #mbnov 🎄

    13 November 2020
  • Peated bourbon from Kings County Distillery is puzzling. Does it taste like scotch-y bourbon or bourbon-y scotch? So I thought a Rob Roy/Manhattan cocktail made perfect sense for Friday cocktails. #mbnov

    6 November 2020
  • Stoop seems like an excellent word for 2020. I still have hope that things will start looking up, but… #mbnov

    5 November 2020
  • I’ve always been a cranky old man in a less-old (?—less true each year) body. But nature still manages to astonish. Autumn sunlight is my favorite light, and the light streaming into our library on this clear afternoon was gorgeous. #mbnov

    3 November 2020

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