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Continue reading →: Photo Friday
The sea grape has recovered from the frost damage it sustained and is starting to bloom. This is just many racemes, a type of flower cluster, on the tree. I first referred to it as a panicle, but I was corrected by my resident botanist. Either way, there should be…
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Continue reading →: Out-of-Town Cooking
It’s that time again. Pretty much every year since I’ve been retired, we have spent a couple nights with Ben and Annie, and Emmalyn, too, so that Ken and Ben can go to the state science fair, where they both are longtime judges. We have a long history with science…
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Continue reading →: Rainy Day Dinner
We experienced a Florida rarity yesterday: a gloomy, all-day rain. Yes, we have a rainy season that usually begins in mid-May and lasts until the middle of October. Even then, it’s very unusual for it to rain all day, unless there’s a tropical storm. A day like this in March?…
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Continue reading →: How Have I Never Shared This Recipe?
I’ve written about any number of salmon recipes. I was sure that I had posted this one. But I went through my old posts, and I can’t find one about this dish. I’m correcting that omission right now. Suzy Karadesh, the originator of the Mediterranean Dish blog, has published two…
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Continue reading →: Photo Friday, Video Edition
I’ve already posted the photos I’ve taken this week, the horses we saw on our walk on Monday, and some that I took at the nature preserve. So I thought I’d share a video from last weekend. The wonderful musicians I sing with, who I wrote about a year and…
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Continue reading →: A Walk on the Wild Side
Any day when I can spend time in nature is a good day, and spending the morning at Green Cay Nature Center with friends made it a great one. I posted pictures that I took on a walk through the wetlands about a year ago. But every visit brings new…
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Continue reading →: Put It in a Pocket—or Not
We have been cooking a lot of familiar recipes lately, including many that I’ve already written about. I was going to do a post about the Colcannon I made for St. Patrick’s Day, but then I realized I posted that recipe last year. Last evening was another favorite that we…
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Continue reading →: Photo Friday
When I was at the botanical garden two weeks ago, I saw that the forest bell creeper (Tecomanthe dendrophila) was blooming, but I wasn’t happy with the pictures I took of it, and didn’t include any in my post. Then this photo from last spring turned up in my “on…
