
The French poet Francis Ponge has this short poem called The Dog, complete in itself though it may not seem to be:
"I read a lot, forcing my self, out of duty, as I trot along, to go back twice, I swear, over these tracks.
Friends ... here it is!
(If I have succeeded in expressing myself, I will have some readers.)
It rings a bell with this blogger.
Cutting basil today I feel like a master perfumier investigating new components for a fragrance. I strip the leaves from the stem and the scent becomes stronger flooding the kitchen. Tonight I shall prepare a variation of the Provencal soup au pistou, pistou being the French version of the Italian pesto. I am hoping that some of the scent of the basil will survive in the soup. The soup will also contain freshly de-podded white haricot beans, also gathered this morning.
2 comments:
Yes, this looks very 'Tapies', a favourite of mine.
Your pesto story reminds me of the flower arrangement I made for our Sunday/Thanksgiving dinner table - branches with red berries and tall spikes of rosemary - a wonderful 'harvest' scent!
I notice you've gone with the new blogger page, lovely and modern. How do you like it? I had commented two times earlier today but each time it disappeared and then gave me a new/old style comment page which still did not work! A couple of other blogspot bloggers gave a hint as to how to return to the 'old page layout' so now I'm trying that out and see if my comment goes through.
Yay, it worked. How? I added the following at the end of your blog URL: ?v=0 (the number). That is http://bestofnow.blogspot.com/?v=0
Maybe I'm the only one having this problem, and there may be an easier way.... let me know. I do love the look of your updated site so hope it works for you and us!
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