published!

My friend Rocky is a real, live published author! His book Their Magistrates and Officials: Executive Government in Colonial Maryland, 1715-1775 has been published by Lexington.

I'm amused to see it's also advertised on websites from here to Japan, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Who knew that there was interest in early American politics on Formosa?

30 poems: Number 14

Dear, dear, I've fallen far behind.

Here's one from a favourite.

( The Eagle )

30 Poems: Number 15

From another oft-quoted poet.

One of the things I miss about my childhood is that spring used to be filled with daffodils. My father, the perfect combination of consummate gardener and absent-minded professor (I know from whom I get my jackdaw-minded way of pottering from one project to another), planted masses of them, and each year when green started coming back into the world it was accompanied by a great deal of yellow, and we would always have jugs of them about the house.

( The Daffodils )

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My feet are getting itchy, so I'm thinking about vacations. Thus, ineluctably, a poll:

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