trente-trois bisous

So, it is just me, photographing vegetables, wearing Ugg boots inside the house on the cold stone floors.

 

While I was in NYC, I had dinner with an old friend in a long-overdue, jaggedly-executed catchup.  It was good, but I am a little jangly, plus am still feeling a little socially-hungover, plus am feeling really acutely the tension of the ropy, twisted boundary between marshalling resources and running someone's business down in the streets.

Uggs are really soft.  I spent the whole day in my nightgown and a cashmere cardigan, until it was time for ballet.  After we got home from ballet tonight I got into a hot bath to read cookbooks.  The children, apparently, put themselves to bed just fine and now I am back in my nightie and my cardigan.  (Yes, Mr Kowalksi:  knee-high surfers' shearling boots are the new over-the-knee socks.) 

Thank you to many people far & near for your stories and suggestions for the Pretty Neighbor situation.  I am planning to have coffee with her soon, as soon as I can focus on face-to-face social interchanging again, and I will share with her.  It was funny to have lunch with Charlie on Monday and I told her What Happened that I had seen with my own eyes and Charlie said, "Oh, she can't marry him!"  Wow.

That is another good example of marshalling forces v. telling people's business.    I tend to heed the right choices, but ... as with the always saying the thing that no one expects anyone to say, it requires me to choose shrewdly and remain fast.  The being open for the signal to the rightness of that place can kill me.  Well, it is hard, anyhow, waiting for feathers, looking out for bricks.  I wish a frumpy, old, ladies' magazine would give me a sign on the double. 

Comments

[Lisa B-K]

Romanesco! My favorite.

[saltypepper]

I never realized how up close they look like seashells. Unobservant me.

[becky]

That's a gorgeous picture.

And yes, yes to Uggs. I put them on in November, and I won't take them off until late March. I have indoor Uggs and outdoor Uggs, though I tend to get them all mixed up. Once I was going to a cocktail party, so I just changed from pink ones into brown ones. Formal wear.

[lala]

Thank you, Becky. I have one pair of pink Uggs, that I bought in pink to be an inside pair. I sometimes have a hard time changing out of them, but as they are pink, it must be done and I have a whole lot of cashmere socks.

Lisa, I only like to look at Romanesco. It tastes fine, but it's like they took the broccoli and configured it wastefully like cauliflower, but also smaller. (I'm trying to feed people here!) But it is so pretty! I think it is the prettiest vegetable in the market right now.

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