U.S. Botanic Garden

Waiting For Santa

Thought for the Day - 4

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- GK Chesterton

Sun In An Empty Room

My favorite by Edward Hopper.

Palate Pleasing Pupusas

Today I finally had a good pupusa. For $1 you can choose a pork, bean, cheese, or combo pupusa at the Dona Azucena Pupuseria at 71 North Glebe Road. In case you don’t know, a pupusa is a very thick tortilla pancake with a little filling in the middle. It is the National Dish of El Salvador; in fact, November 13th is National Pupusa Day there. I had a pupusa revueltas (the combo) and it was delicious. Patted by hand and grilled to perfection (grill marks included) then served with curtido (cabbage salad like cole slaw) and salsa roja (not too hot). All this for $1! Of course, I also had to have a plantain - they know how to choose them and cook them so it was sweet, not greasy, and yummy. If you want a cheap and tasty treat in Arlington try the pupusas at Dona Azucena. Delicioso!

Thought for the Day - 3

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Missed This Mongolian Mammal

Click on the title to find out more about the jerboa. Evidently he lives in Mongolia. Worth going back for?

If you watch the video clip (click on the title above), check out the tail. It is quite nice. I was lucky enough to have seen a duck-billed platypus in the wild in Australia. That was a thrill.

Titian Tree on Key

"...A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair..."