MOI GREW AN ARTICHOKE!

I didn't know the newly-planted garden was, uh, newly-planted and that it included artichokes! Which is to say, with this post, I inaugurate the biannual Fiasco known as the results of my gardening attempts. To wit, moi latest Relished W(h)ine List:

CITY SLICKER'S SPRING/SUMMER GARDEN HARVEST (to date)
an artichoke
four scallions


PUBLICATIONS
PORTRAIT AND DREAM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Bill Berkson (very satisfying read)

LUNCH POEMS by Mark Young (at his peak; writing masterfully)

DELTA BLUES, poems by Skip Fox (again: at his peak; writing masterfully)

KENMORE: POEM UNLIMITED, poems by Geoffrey Gatza (well now: didn't know a mystic lurked in Geoffrey's hot bod until I read this book...)

NEIGHBOR, poems by Rachel Levitsky

AND AENEAS STARES INTO HER HELMET, poems by Tiffany Higgins

[LAPSED INSEL WEARY], poems by Susana Gardner

RAINBOWS FROM HEAVEN: A STORY OF FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE THAT CREATED A FAMILY, memoir by Lynn Ellen Doxon

EARLY SPRING: AN ECOLOGIST AND HER CHILDREN WAKE TO A WARMING WORLD, memoir by Amy Seidl

TO LOVE WHAT IS: A MARRIAGE TRANSFORMED, memoir by Alix Kates Shulman

RICH LIKE THEM: MY DOOR-TO-DOOR SEARCH FOR THE SECRETS OF THE WEALTHY IN AMERICA'S RICHEST NEIGHBORHOODS, investigative journalism by Ryan D'Agostino

THESE IS MY WORDS: THE DIARY OF SARAH AGNES PRINE 1881-1901 ARIZONA TERRITORIES, novel by Nancy E. Turner

THE DEVIL'S TEARDROP, novel by Jeffery Deaver

ANOTHER LIFE, novel by Andrew Vacchs

PANDORA'S BOX, novel by John J. Nance

MOUNTING FEARS, novel by Stuart Woods


WINES
2007 Evangeline pinot noir Russian River Valley
2001 Behrens & Hitchcock merlot NV
1985 La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 904
2001 Paraiso pinot noir West Terrace Santa Lucia Highlands Monterey County
2004 Dutch Henry Argos NV Hillside
2005 J.J. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese
2007 Mondavi cabernet NV
2005 Abadia Returta Rivoli
1998 Wild Duck Creek Estate "Heathcote" Springflat shiraz
1990 Figeac