Leaving on a jet plane

all regularly scheduled posts will be suspended for the next week. i am off to Oregon!

valentine

i dislike valentine's day. it makes people feel bad if they are single and it makes people feel bad if they have someone. although i love any excuse for flowers. it is my only request for the day. i took this picture in the dark with my finger over the flash.

and a traditional poem, by Dorothy Parker

One Perfect Rose

A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.

All tenderly his messenger he chose;

Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet -

One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;

'My fragile leaves,' it said, 'his heart enclose.'

Love long has taken for his amulet

One perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet

One perfect limousine, do you suppose?

Ah no, it's always just my luck to get

One perfect rose.