I found blogs in general that way–through Googling something or other, and finding myself at a blog and with a kindred spirit. I’ve never looked back :-).

In any case, I’ll tell you what else I really, really find impressive, and that’s your Sept. 15 post presenting at some length the Atlantic Monthly article by Martha Gellhorn. So get a load of this from like, Strictly Small Worlds-ville . . .

I too had been doing some work in which I cite one of her articles (from the July of ’56 New Republic) anthologized in a very fine resource, Under Fire: Israel’s 20 Year Fight for Survival by Donald Robinson, and during course of some hot and heavy Yahooing (I am usually much too repressed to Google) finally I came stumbling out from all the thorny, dry tangle of cyber-brush into the unexpectedly refreshing oasis of your blog, your citations, your pretty green apple and–who knew!?

It’s always really swell to run into a kindred spirit, and it’s good to see that ever since September you’re still hanging, most intrepidly, in there.
—
Mackie

P.S. As to that darling photographic quotation of René Magritte–would your first name by any chance happen to be “Eve”?

Here at 40 degrees north latitude and at 4200 feet (Zone 6), I’ve had Blue Pearl crocuses for about a month. But they are notoriously early bloomers.