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It’s that time of year in Maine: black flies and planting. Somehow they always come together. Yes, that is my bug repellent gardening outfit. Yes, each of those dots is a black fly that was trapped in the baby oil smeared on my helmet (an ingenious and effective bug-reduction device).

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Here is Alison as we bike back from Stonehenge to our Landmark Trust apartment in nearby Salisbury. It’s about a 10 mile trip. We are taking the carriage paths back from the World Heritage site because it is adjacent to a very busy highway that is pretty unpleasant to bike along. The carriage and foot paths, on the other hand, wend through the obvious burial mounds, as ancient as Stonehenge, that sit on the hills surrounding the monument. To either side are flocks of sheep that graze over those grassy mounds and keep this southern edge of the Salisbury Plain treeless and open.

Reynolds Price 1933 – 2011

Reynolds Price 1933 - 2011

Above is from the back of the book jacket for the 25th Anniversary edition of A Long and Happy Life. I present it as a good picture of Reynolds before he was confined to a wheelchair as the result of cancer treatment when steroids and a lack of exercise puffed him up well beyond what he would have preferred. Unfortunately his obits, including an excellent one in the NY Times by William Grimes, are going with post-cancer shots.
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I found one of the the elusive Flushing (Queens, NY) Xinjiang Bbq Meat Carts! Two lamb,  one beef, $3, and very good.

I have heard lots of stuff from adventurous NYers about the food in Flushing, including these street vendors selling “Authentic Xinjian BBQ” or what we normally think of as kebabs. So now that I’m back in NYC for a few days of bidnes, I went out to check it out.
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