THREE LIST UPDATES OF RECENT RELISHES

Is it coming to understand, viz Dante's Purgatorio, more about cavesoils that the earth is starting to hand over more bounty to my brown-thumbed palms? It's still a pathetic harvest list, but progress slowly, uh, progresses...

THE CITY SLICKER'S HARVEST TALLY, to date

27 sprigs of parsley
3 yellow squashes
1 cherry
42 sprigs of basil
2 Santa Rosa plums

And as always my update every other week or so of wines and books imbibed:

BOOKS:
PURGATORIO by Dante

IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF ANOTHER COUNTRY, poetry/memoir by Etel Adnan

YES LOVE, poem by Dan Waber

NOTHING FICTIONAL BUT THE ACCURACY OF ARRANGEMENT (SHE, poems by Sawako Nakayasu

A LOOK AT THE DOOR WITH THE HINGES OFF, poems by Michael Heller

THE LISTENING LOST, poems by Mackenzie Carignan

PIECES OF THE SKY, poems by Greg Fuchs

MARBLE GODDESSES WITH TECHNICOLOR SKINS, poems by Corinne Robins

CENOTAPH, poems by Eric Pankey

ONCE I GAZED AT YOU IN WONDER, poems by Jan Heller Levi

COLLECTED POEMS by Edgar Bowers

FIRE IS FAVORABLE TO THE DREAMER, poems by Susan Terris

THE BEAUTY MAY SHE WALK: HIKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL AT 60, memoir by Leslie Marr

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, memoir by Joan Didion

YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN, memoir by Gene Logsdon

MY CAT SPIT MCGEE, memoir by Willie Morris

THE WALMART EFFECT: HOW THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL COMPANY REALLY WORKS--AND HOW IT'S TRANSFORMING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY by Charles Fishman


WINES:
2002 Behrens & Hitchcock merlot Napa Valley
2003 Mondavi Reserve Fume Blanc
2003 Kistler chardonnay
2003 Dutch Henry chardonnay
1998 Turley zinfandel Napa Valley
2001 Chase zinfandel Hayne Vineyard
2002 Turley zinfandel Paso Robles, Ueberroth Vineyard
2002 Greenock Creek shiraz Apricot Blaze vineyard
1995 Mondavi reserve cabernet
1994 Ferrari Carrano "El Dorado"
1994 Ravenswood Woodrood Belloni zinfandel
2003 Raymond reserve chardonnay
2002 Jericho Canyon meritage
2003 Willi Schaufer Graacher Damprobet Spatlese
1994 Williams Selyem zinfandel Mendocino County
2000 Jones Family cabernet
1988 Rabaud-Promis sauterne