The groundhog has spoken.Six more weeks of winter - and it's still bitter cold.
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Madison Square Park is bright and chilly
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But Eric Kayser serves hot tea and gives you a little tiny financier in your saucer.Another day I repair to the flower district
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and bathe in bright ranunculus
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and more ranunculus
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and anemones
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and weird begonias with swirls in them
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and my very favorites - hellebores more charmingly referred to as Lenten Roses.
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I go home and make sketches and start on a new tapestry design having stocked up on colored wools.
I'm reading Agnes Jeykll's Kitchen Essays from 1922 which summon up a lost world and have just finished Diana Holman-Hunt's delightfully batty memoir My Grandmothers and I from 1960.
Only six more weeks.....