Continue Reading Cabbage One of the Brexit goals was the desire to escape the idiocy of European Union regulations – 26,911 words on the sale of cabbage,…
Continue Reading Artichokes Prickly about having to eat your vegetables? Might as well start with the thistle family – and a vegetable that really looks…
Continue Reading Gemüse In 1993 we spent a sabbatical in Cambridge, England. That is D. spent it in some hallowed university hall. I spent it…
Continue Reading Mechanics We’ll end this week with a few beautiful photographs of a friend of mine, Dale Schreiner, who has spent a lot of…
Continue Reading Of Cars and Men Owners of special cars can be divided into two groups: the nice and the not so nice. I happily chat up the first…
Continue Reading Heuer & Co. on the Road Last year I flew to LA and rented a car for a road trip back to Portland. Quite the adventure in that…
Continue Reading Tales from the Hood Early cars used to have radiator caps with a thermometer sticking out to warn about potential overheating. In the 1920s these were…
Continue Reading Bumper Stickers Have you ever contemplated the fact that bumper stickers (or any other form of messaging on cars) often seem funny when you…
Continue Reading The Allure of the Automobile Some years back the Portland Art Museum presented an exhibit The Allure of the Automobile; I sort of cracked up when I heard…
Continue Reading Car Talk In addition to gardening, my mother was most passionate about driving. Or should we say racing? She liked to compare herself to…
