Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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The folks that make the Wikipedia possible are passing the hat. posted: 12:15:16 PM |
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On recent walks on the W&OD Trail, I've noticed an aggressive plant that I don't remember from previous years. Attractive clusters of blue berry-sized fruits, triangular perfoliate pale green leaves on a vine overrunning just about anything, including 7-foot-tall stalks of Joe-Pye Weed. It's called Mile-a-Minute Knotweed, or Devil's Tearthumb (very appropriately, as I tugged on a sample of it for closer inspection). The scientific binomial is Polygonum perfoliatum L., and it's been spreading slowly from its introduction in Pennsylvania in the 1930s. Apparently more of a threat in the Northeast, it seems to be making inroads through the mid-Atlantic into Piedmont Virginia. I guess the Invasive Species Smackdown Event (Vine Division) to come is the meeting of kudzu from the south and mile-a-minute from the north. posted: 12:15:15 PM |
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Jane Smiley explains how to read In Search of Lost Time in 70 days.
It is important that you go about your business while you pursue your
reading project. You have to take M. with you on planes and trains and into
hotels and to the dentist's office and into your child's piano lesson. In
Search of Lost Time will not have its full effect if you sequester it.
It must diffuse into your life, color every place you go and every scene you
look at with its own tints.
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