And now, I pause to note a limitation,

which I am loath to admit, and which I shall represent now as a series of propositions and factual statements:

1. I wished to create a hand-drawn/-written post that contained within it clickable links.

2. I drew/hand-wrote this post.

3. I scanned these drawings.

4. I figured out how to insert these links, known as "hotspots," in Fireworks.

5. I exported this as a .jpg.

6. When you upload this fussed-over and finessed .jpg to Blogger, it is just a picture.

7. A picture with no clickable links.

8. I do not know how to work on this problem/challenge to my skillz at the level of html code. Moreover,

9. I do not know that this problem/challenge to my skillz can be surmounted at the level of html code.

Ergo, please note that the "click here" commands in the hand-drawn/-written images below cannot be executed by clicking, and if you would like to click, you may use the links below the images. This is an inelegant solution. It pains me. Nonetheless:

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Spoon

Commodores

Black Crowes

Fred Hersch [Jobim] [@Jazz Standard] [NYTimes]

That is all. Carry on.

TAGS: frustrated, execution

The evidence.

Singing son and his business partner have been helping me execute my garden plan. I, too, did some work planting herbs and flowers in all the pots, big and little, I've installed in the flower beds. See for yourself:











New flowers and herbs in the pots.











New topiary form, not quite installed yet;
clematis; all the new plantings; new mulch!











Same thing, different angle.











The lavender, rosemary, lavender,
rosemary, etc., border.

Botany.

Today we planted

• four new rose bushes: Mister Lincoln, a classic red; Falling in Love, a beautiful pink; Elle and Fragrant Cloud, both salmon-colored.
  
• four scented geraniums.
• a dozen lavender plants and ten rosemary plants.
• ten lemon verbena plants.
• some ornamental grass.
• piles of nicotiana--white and pink.
• some single petaled marigolds.

Tomorrow, we'll plant

• cosmos.
• transplanted cornflowers.
• a couple more roses, probably.
• hollyhocks.
• coreopsis.
• etc.

Maybe sometime soon I'll plant some tomatoes and some basil. It's time, isn't it?