Comments on: First day of spring! [belated] http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:45:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Anonymous http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11756 Anonymous Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11756 Damn deer ate my crocuses. Damn deer ate my crocuses.

]]> By: neo-neocon http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11757 neo-neocon Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11757 Thanks, Mackie. Take your time and look around.<BR/><BR/>I found blogs in general that way--through Googling something or other, and finding myself at a blog and with a kindred spirit. I've never looked back :-). Thanks, Mackie. Take your time and look around.

I found blogs in general that way–through Googling something or other, and finding myself at a blog and with a kindred spirit. I’ve never looked back :-).

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11758 Ymarsakar Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11758 <A HREF="http://theladyjustitia.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Justitia's blog</A> has some of the best photos I have ever seen. Then again, I don't study photography, so my experience is limited to the promotions on Instapundit. Justitia’s blog has some of the best photos I have ever seen. Then again, I don’t study photography, so my experience is limited to the promotions on Instapundit.

]]> By: Mackie http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11759 Mackie Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11759 I like your crocuses. Would you like to see a picture of my radishes and spinach?<BR/><BR/>In any case, I'll tell you what else I really, really find impressive, and that's your Sept. 15 post presenting at some length the <I>Atlantic Monthly</I> article by Martha Gellhorn. So get a load of this from like, Strictly Small Worlds-ville . . .<BR/><BR/>I too had been doing some work in which I cite one of her articles (from the July of '56 <I>New Republic</I>) anthologized in a very fine resource, <I>Under Fire: Israel's 20 Year Fight for Survival</I> by Donald Robinson, and during course of some hot and heavy Yahooing (I am usually much too repressed to Google) finally I came stumbling out from all the thorny, dry tangle of cyber-brush into the unexpectedly refreshing oasis of your blog, your citations, your pretty green apple and--who knew!?<BR/><BR/>It's always really swell to run into a kindred spirit, and it's good to see that ever since September you're still hanging, most intrepidly, in there.<BR/>--<BR/>Mackie<BR/><BR/>P.S. As to that darling photographic quotation of René Magritte--would your first name by any chance happen to be "Eve"? I like your crocuses. Would you like to see a picture of my radishes and spinach?

In any case, I’ll tell you what else I really, really find impressive, and that’s your Sept. 15 post presenting at some length the Atlantic Monthly article by Martha Gellhorn. So get a load of this from like, Strictly Small Worlds-ville . . .

I too had been doing some work in which I cite one of her articles (from the July of ‘56 New Republic) anthologized in a very fine resource, Under Fire: Israel’s 20 Year Fight for Survival by Donald Robinson, and during course of some hot and heavy Yahooing (I am usually much too repressed to Google) finally I came stumbling out from all the thorny, dry tangle of cyber-brush into the unexpectedly refreshing oasis of your blog, your citations, your pretty green apple and–who knew!?

It’s always really swell to run into a kindred spirit, and it’s good to see that ever since September you’re still hanging, most intrepidly, in there.
–
Mackie

P.S. As to that darling photographic quotation of René Magritte–would your first name by any chance happen to be “Eve”?

]]> By: dicentra http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11760 dicentra Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11760 Wow, that is early for New England.<BR/><BR/>Here at 40 degrees north latitude and at 4200 feet (Zone 6), I've had <A HREF="http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/images/crocus_blue_pearl.jpg" REL="nofollow">Blue Pearl crocuses</A> for about a month. But they are notoriously early bloomers. Wow, that is early for New England.

Here at 40 degrees north latitude and at 4200 feet (Zone 6), I’ve had Blue Pearl crocuses for about a month. But they are notoriously early bloomers.

]]> By: Sissy Willis http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11761 Sissy Willis Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/22/first-day-of-spring-belated/#comment-11761 I love your crocus image. . . very much in context, whereas <A HREF="http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2006/03/while_maleness_.html" REL="nofollow">mine is probably the exact opposite, totally removed from context to allow the viewer's imagination to read into it at will</A>. It takes two -- 'reminds me of <A HREF="http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2006/03/while_maleness_.html" REL="nofollow">the Harvey Mansfield "Manliness" debate</A>. :) I love your crocus image. . . very much in context, whereas mine is probably the exact opposite, totally removed from context to allow the viewer’s imagination to read into it at will. It takes two — ‘reminds me of the Harvey Mansfield “Manliness” debate. :)

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