Dear friends,
Tonight will be Photography Night at PTMYB, partly because I came home late due to an after-work doctor’s appointment, partly because my laptop seems to be feeling logy tonight. Must be all the steak and eggs I’ve been feeding it. 
Last night I mentioned in passing the Heather Garden at Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan. (If you didn’t click on the link, I urge you to do so—really, it’s pretty.) In keeping with the theme of Beautiful Spaces in Urban Places, Lloyd has graciously offered to let me share this picture of Point Defiance in Tacoma, Washington, toward the Puget Sound end of Tacoma. Lloyd grew up in Tacoma. He went back for two weeks in October to visit his parents and sister, and returned with some nifty pictures, including some beautiful pics of the sound. Maybe he’ll let me share some more of them.
He also, after almost 12 years of waxing rhapsodic, finally got to taste a maple bar once again. For as long as I’ve known him, he has lamented that he cannot find maple bars anywhere on the East Coast. I’ve been grilling him about the dough and the maple coating, trying to figure out of this is something I can make at home. I think I can, I think I can. (Any maple bar fans out there who have any input on what makes the ur-maple bar, please feel free to share.)
