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Two Roses
After taking first birthday photos of Ruby and Charlee four days ago (one of which tops the post I wrote earlier tonight), I realized I had been oblivious to the blooming of our roses. Out I went for...
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A Visit to APO
Apache Point Observatory’s 3.5-meter telescope [All photos by me on my iPhone, alas. Not the greatest detail (but click on the photos for more).] Two weeks ago tonight I was packing for a short trip to...
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Ruby and Charlee Turn One
I introduced Ruby and Charlee on Ron’s View January 5, the day after they moved into the house. (See updates here and here and here.) Four days ago, they celebrated their first birthday. I couldn’t...
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Ball retriever
Larry Ellison’s Rising Sun [From Live Yachting] It’s been a busy two weeks, with travel and major events getting in the way of blogging. Had I written one more post two weeks ago, it would have been...
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Thanks for Nothing
Today’s NYT Magazine has an article that I started reading online yesterday. It features a Nebraska farmer, Jane Kleeb, who is fighting the Keystone pipeline. (Keystone brings oil from Alberta down to...
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Bar Cantinetta
I completely forgot that I started a post two and a half weeks ago about our dinner at Bar Cantinetta three weeks ago. Let me finish what will be an abbreviated version of the post, since the...
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Seattle Sommeliers
Who knew? We live in a sommelier hotbed. Lettie Teague’s weekly wine column in yesterday’s WSJ is devoted to Seattle, Land of the Serious Sommeliers. The article is subtitled, “a lovably nerdy mind...
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Miró at SAM, 2
[From website of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía] I wrote two months ago about the opening at the Seattle Art Museum of the exhibition Miró: The Experience of Seeing. This past Wednesday, we...
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Imagine That
A new exhibition—Imagine That: Surprising Stories and Amazing Objects at the Burke Museum—opened last weekend at the Burke Museum of History and Culture. The Burke is our state museum, and one close...
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Shoot the Moon
Above is NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day from two days ago. (Click on it to download a higher-resolution image.) As explained at NASA’s site, it’s a real photo, with genuine colors, the redness of...
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When You Know You’re Old
I wrote four posts last Sunday about our visit to New York the week before on the occasion of my mother’s 94th birthday. Left unwritten was this one, in which our trip ends with an unexpected gift....
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The Morgan Library
A week ago we were in New York to celebrate my mother’s 94th birthday. What to do after the festive lunch at La Grenouille and leaving my parents? Well, we were on 52nd, with the Morgan Library just...
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La Grenouille, 3
A year ago almost to the day I wrote about our celebration of my mother’s 93rd birthday at New York’s great French restaurant La Grenouille. (A little over four years ago, I wrote about La Grenouille...
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The Race
One of the pleasures of travel is the opportunity it affords to discover how similar life is in other places. And how different. Take cable, for instance. Here in Seattle, we live under the Comcast...
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Chicken Parm Pizza
I love pizza. I love chicken parm. Why not combine them? They do that at Kitchen Kabaret, the amazing food emporium located not far from where I grew up on Long Island. We were back there last...
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2014 Abel Prize
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters this morning announced the recipient of its 2014 Abel Prize, the twelfth one awarded. With mathematicians so rarely in the news, I have made it a point...
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Too Late
Bob Feller throwing no-hitter on opening day, 1940, at age 21. [From Sports Illustrated] Joe Posnanski has been running a series of posts on the 100 Greatest Baseball Players Ever. I gather this will...
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In Praise of the CBC
The Winter Olympics are here. And, thank god, Canada’s CBC is broadcasting them. No need to wait for NBC’s evening tape-delayed evening prime time coverage. No need to have events broken into little...
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Seahawks!
Richard Sherman and the victorious Seahawks [Jonathan Ferrey, Getty Images] I’m a week late on this one, but I shouldn’t let the moment go without comment. A week ago, the Seattle Seahawks were...
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Joshua Bell Recital
[From Joshua Bell's website] Half a year ago, on the morning when Seattle Symphony tickets for the season went on sale for non-subscribers, Gail and I selected two concerts we anticipated might be...
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