time and place

For my 40th birthday we went to Ashland and saw “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The whole weekend was as near perfect as things can be in real life. We got out of town, spent a couple nights in a B&B, ate lots of great food, visited a park and a used bookstore, spent some time reading in our room, and saw a very entertaining production of a Shakespeare comedy.

Weekend bike bag contents: A package of Trader Joe’s Dried Pomelo, an IBM stinkpad, a copy of “The Charles Addams Mother Goose”, my Mac Mini, “Passages” by Connie Willis (which, alas, is not very good so far), two very trashy M.E. Chaber “Milo March” paperback thrillers from the early ’70s, and Mr. Chang.

I’m thinking maybe this blog is mis-named. I should change it to the Wild Backyard World. Today’s Wild Backyard World is brought to you by Enid the Waterlily, Frosty the Moth, and Milo the Ugly Dwarf Eggplant.

I call the moth Frosty because he let me take a lot of photos before he flew off. Luckily I got this one in before that happened. Milo has been growing like there’s no tomorrow. This plant has been putting out flowers and thumb-sized eggplants since I brought it home. I’ve been wishing I could find such an intriguingly homely houseplant for my cube at work.

Found this enormous and beautiful spider last night in my back yard.