Reading and Roaming
WARHOL IN THE GARDEN Continuing their annual tradition of presenting several of an artist’s works and interpreting them in the garden, Selby Gardens this year is focusing on Andy Warhol. Throughout the garden there are large white square planters filled with magenta and pink impatiens as well as a divided window display of plants …
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DINING OUT Lazy Lobster We’ve enjoyed food from the Lazy Lobster on Longboat Key several times, so it was a pleasure to dine again in their light-filled airy dining room. There is outside seating too, but it was already taken on this bright Sunday afternoon. Service was attentive, but leisurely given the crowd. We, like …
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This was a fun week filled with theater, opera, dinners out and in, and long conversations with old and new friends. SMALL SCREEN After war in early 20th century Morocco, I’ve taken up a Kiwi crime series. The Brokenwood Mysteries (available on Acorn) are set on the North Island in a very small fictional …
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BIRDS This week we’ve had several early morning low tides with a wide expanse of mud. Perfect for the birds. One day there was a flotilla of pelicans (white ones in a ring), the usual gulls, several groups of ibis with their heads and beaks mostly in the down position, and far out in the …
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