| March 25, 2007 | Shows | Recipe Calendar | Archives |
The March transition to spring has begun. Some bright shiny days with temps getting to 50, but still snow everywhere. Along the camp road the snow bank has melted into a long Stonehenge gallery of odd sculptures: alternate designs for a Siamese cat, busts of Winston Churchill, the Pillsbury dough boy in need of a shave, wacky wabbits with Garfield grins, mushroom cloud wannabees. It's good to get outside but hard to find a place that's not too muddy to walk. Friday at noon, I walked a trail along the Kennebec that goes from Hallowell to Augusta. One stripe of running water in the ice of the river.
I wonder how many movies about Dystopian futures involving control by scary religious conservative parties have been created during the Bush administration. V for Vendetta and Equilibrium come to mind, and maybe the remake of Manchurian Candidate. If films are society's dreams, these are full of blunt warnings. Now that the tide has turned against the Cheney-Rove puppets, they are only slightly less scary. They are not as good as fresh out of our garden, but it was good to have sugar snaps in winter. I added a bit of lime juice to the recipe which has almonds toasted in sesame oil, and some crystalized ginger on top. |