gardening and harvesting peaches with the bees, butterflies, and goldfinches

in the garden: kyuri, nasu, watermelon, peach

I often think that Ann Harding's style of acting was about 40 years ahead of its time. From Double Harness (1933). (Although that meal she's fixing looks pretty awful.)

the kind of tidbit I live for: Lubitsch ordered hourly malted milkshakes for Jeanette MacDonald on the set of The Love Parade

Anthony Mann, Director, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1906, in San Diego, California

June currants gathered in my oldest bowl, chipped long ago in France

sunset in the pacific northwest: 8:52 p.m.

night clipping: chive blossoms

life in a plum blossom town

starting to bloom: pruned branches from the garden (peach, cherry)

"The cynicism is sort of disappointed romanticism at heart — someone [critic Andrew Sarris] once described it as whipped cream that’s gotten slightly curdled."

"Good luck, Sunny-side."

my ideal: a small mountain town (population 578) is screening the latest Mike Leigh

home is where the mille-feuille nabe is

"Like that,"

"I once read an essay by a writer who was asked to imagine an ideal career, and he replied that he would like to be responsible for just a brief stretch, perhaps 200 yards or so, of a river. I think this would have charmed Claire utterly, she would have safely put her life in that author’s hands."