Journal of a Sabbatical |
||||||||
April 27, 2001 |
|
|
friday |
|||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Today's Reading: Budapest 1900 by John Lukacs Plum Island Bird List |
|
|
So, anyway, I slept for about 12 hours last night and arrived at the Botanical Department around 10:00 AM raring to go only to find out that Karoly and István had to go sell the book at the horticultural expo hence would not be available for the afternoon. Umm, I was planning to spend the day getting them up to speed with the new scanner. Oh well. I scanned in a bunch of photos of pine
cones and spent some time trying to track down a fix for an
AppleScript memory leak, which was causing Photoshop to stop
running after I had opened and closed it a few times.
Details of rant about Apple knowledgebase and alarming
tendency toward Meecrosoft-like absurdity hereby omitted.
Suffice it to say, I was not a happy customer
today. BiB and I exchanged emails during the day to plan my trip to Kaposvar tomorrow. He emailed me a series of photos of an accident/rescue in Kossovo and I sent him a scan of a metasequoia cone. Different worlds for sure. When I got tired of scanning pine
cones and viewing accident pictures and train schedules, I
locked up the office and headed for the horticultural expo.
Unlike the Mass. Horticultural Society Flower Show, which
takes place at the tail end of the evil Boston winter and
hence indoors, this show had a mixture of indoor and outdoor
exhibits and booths. You could buy The booth where we are selling the conifer book is inside on the second floor near the bonsai exhibit. I left my pack at the booth with Agi and walked around the show. This Hungarian thing for geraniums is serious. There is apparently a geranium category in the show, right next to the bonsai category. They were even in window boxes. All that was missing was the windows. The bonsai is very cool, though. I love the tiny juniper forests. They spark some childhood place in my imagination. I can picture mini-me walking through the mini-forest. I bought a tiny Japanese stone tower with a well, complete with detachable bucket, from one of the booths in the garden. Not that I have a miniature garden, but I thought it might look nice in my little Zen sandbox at home.
[May 3: floppy finally unstuck from drive, photos now inserted into this entry. Top to bottom: view out Botanical Department window, flowers in bloom at the flower show, Agi selling the book at our booth.] |
|||||
|
|
|
Copyright © 2001, Janet I. Egan |