Winter Interest Plants, Part II- My Favorite Winter Trees
Trees play a prominent part in the winter landscape. Here are some of my favorites and why I love them. It is winter and our trees have shed their luxuriant summer dress to reveal a drab and meager winter form, often coarse, dull and seemingly ... [... more]
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Penguin Classics Pickwick Papers
 A Jovial Lighthearted Romp: Pickwick Papers is a wonderful book, and no doubt much has been written about it in academic and literary circles. But from a layman's perspective, it is simply a fun read. One would almost think it the work of a great master [... more]
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Southern Comfort (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: More than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana bayou, Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend-warrior National Guardsmen on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the "new guy& [... more]
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Less Than Zero
Won't be for everyone, but still great: "Less Than Zero" is probably not going to appear on the Oprah book club selection anytime soon, but that doesn't mean it's not any good. Just the opposite. This is one edgy, fresh and disturbing novel by [... more]
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2002 Sym 5 Live
From Amazon.com: Mahler called himself a "summer composer," writing most of his music in the countryside he loved during vacations from his duties as director of the Vienna Opera. His Fifth Symphony was composed in 1901 and 1902 in his new [... more]
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Starlight Princess
Exquisite Fantasy Embroidery: As a young child, one of my teachers taught us the basics of embroidery. I still have the tiny apron I made as a child and ended up framing it because I wanted to keep it safe. You will want to read this book and then keep [... more]
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The Pickwick Papers
A Jovial Lighthearted Romp: Pickwick Papers is a wonderful book, and no doubt much has been written about it in academic and literary circles. But from a layman's perspective, it is simply a fun read. One would almost think it the work of a great master [... more]
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Blood and Oil:: Memoirs of a Persian Prince
From Amazon.com: Anyone who views Iran merely as a nation of Muslim fanatics should read this riveting exposition of its tortuous 20th-century history. Born in 1917 into an aristocratic Iranian family, Manucher Farmanfarmaian served his country in the [... more]
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1976 Feste Romane/Le Coq D Or
From Amazon.co.uk: More sonic blockbusters from the Decca vaults. Both the Respighi tone poems in particular receive stunningly realistic and wide-ranging treatment from the recording engineers, while the Clevelanders respond with jaw-dropping discipline [... more]
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Respighi: Semirama
Salome among the Pines of Rome: Yes, Marton comes across splendidly in this recording. More invloved and animated with singing sweeter than you've heard before (reading the review below- I wasn't aware that Marton recorded Korngold's Das Wunder der [... more]
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Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps; Debussy: La mer; ...
From Amazon.com: This selection of 20th-century works is perfectly designed to display a virtuoso orchestra in all its glory. The music glows and glitters with a myriad colors, exploits every imaginable instrumental effect, and offers many solo [... more]
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From Here We Go Sublime
field: Following a trio of gorgeous 12" singles-- which provide six of the 10 tracks here-- Kompakt electronic artist Axel Willner's wistful, melancholic, and yes, sublime debut album generates a blissful, dreamy, almost trance-like minimalism. [... more]
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