TURKEYS ON THE SUNLOUNGER: the America I didn't expect.....

Even this earnest Capital City, where the grandiose, the mundane, the visitors and the forces of the law meet and commingle ... ........

 I stumbled on Washington's Chinatown - like many self-respecting American cities, it has one. It's not that big but there is a triu...

  or "DC" as you have to call it here. There may be a short blogging hiatus as I rush around for a couple of days  but normal serv...

  A city that rose from a swamp, though it's hard to see that now. A capital city. A city of grand, monumental statement buildings. A ci...

  You mustn't think I gain any pleasure from giving  Flying Turkey Travel Awards  - or not much anyway. Well all right, some. But someti...

Suddenly these giant garish excrescences have appeared at almost every house in Cattaraugus County, in a brief and glorious show... I...

 This, it seems, is shaping up to be the summer of calamities. First, we discovered that carpenter bees have invaded the roof of our porch. ...