At Home in the World: Black Iris spring

Madaba, Jordan
Friday, April 19, 2013

On our way out to dinner tonight, Frank stopped to show me a patch of black irises that he'd found on a recent run. Black irises are the Jordanian national flower--rare and lovely to see.

My Reading List

Quirke mysteries by Benjamin Black
"The Infinite Plan" by Isabel Allende
"Flood of Fire" by Amitav Ghosh
Inspector Gamache mysteries by Louise Penny
"All the Light We Cannot See" by Athony Doerr
"The Hungry Tide" by Amitav Ghosh
"Full Tilt" by Dervla Murphy
John Russell WWII Spy Thriller series by David Downing
"Flight Behavior" by Barbara Kingsolver
Maisie Dobbs mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver
Siri Paiboun mysteries by Colin Cotterill
"River of Smoke" by Amitav Ghosh
"Snow Child" by Eowyn Ivey
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" by David Mitchell
"State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett
"Sea of Poppies" by Amitav Ghosh
"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell
"The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia" by Anna Reid
"Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark" by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Black Iris spring

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