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Craig: Peru or some other country where the water is not so good.
Brian: Alive and well settling into his rocky mountain home
Henry: Fly fishing the "run off" with zero luck.

Best song ever

Some Garden Pictures and Paul Simon

We have been ridiculously busy at the Dart Household. The Garden and the plants have been coming in and it really is starting to feel like summer.






The Gardening is really progressing:





This our compost if you look real hard you can see the
worms...which is a really great thing if your into composting.



My Corn is totally awesome.






And for some reason I've been listen to a lot of Paul Simon--I really
dig his mustache in this video.

A Last-Minute Read

On Friday, I purchased what I believe will be the last book I read in New York City. It's called Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. It is a dense read- somewhere between People's History of the United States and any history textbook you red in college. The writing is a bit dry, but it's a fantastic story that every New Yorker (and American) should know. It's hard to think of Manhattan as anything other than a pancake island of paved grids and steel canyons. Nowhere in American can I so readily forget that weather does something more than inconvenience my daily commute. It is strange to read of early colonists as they gush about New York's tremendous, natural resources and arrogantly declare them to be limitless. At 1,400 pages, I'm sure it'll be a quick read...

The pending move is all that I can think about even as I try to wring every last experience I can from this city. Wednesday is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thursday is Shakespeare in the Park. Next week is Fire Island, the Whitney Museum, Donut Plant, a Vietnamese sandwich, and a couple more pizzas before we set sail on the 14th.