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Strings Without Borders is a musical portrait of guitarist Pierre Bensusan. At just 17, the Frenchman won the Grand Prix du Disque at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival. He was playing bluegrass back then but moved to Celtic and beyond. In 2008, he was named Best World Music Guitar Player in Guitar Player magazine’s Readers' Choice Awards. [More...]

A flower made my day

The best room in our Long Island cottage is the outdoor shower. I could stay there all day (or night) looking out at the garden, watching the changing light. Find me there until November.

There are two big day lily patches in our yard and amazingly the deer didn’t get them this year. That second four foot fence — four feet from the first — must have fooled their depth perception after all.

During a recent early morning shower, a surprise: a single daylily blooming outside the bedroom door. They’re tubers, so no bird planted it.

Daylily #1


Daylily #2

Daylily #3

The next morning I looked out and there was a single rose stalk bent away from the rest, over the grass. As the days passed, its deterioration — falling petals, browning — was beautiful to watch.

 

Then, a butterfly I couldn’t identify sat for a portrait on the butterfly bush, buddleia.

Butterfly bush (buddleia)

Butterfly bush (buddleia)













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