Silver Spring

[pecunium]

My plan is to leave here on Monday, 19 July, in the early morning bright, and hie me up the road (through the Shenandoah Valley; following the path of "Jackson's Foot Cavalry") up to Silver Spring, Maryland. I'll be staying in Takoma Park (where there is a great music shop ( The House of Musical Traditions), and planning on supper at Mandalay.

It's a Burmese place, so it's new to me.

The fly in the ointment... It's about a ten hour trip for me (about eight on the road, but I have to get gas, eat, etc.). If I don't pack the computer until the morning, I'll be later out the door. I'll look at alternate means of getting it on the bike.

In any case, I won't be on the road earlier than 0700... which means the best I can get in is probably 1630, and 1700 is more like it. I figure I can pretty much be certain of making the restaurant by 1900. I'll shoot for 1830, and try to make an announcement when I get in.

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That's my favourite wildflower---it grows here, and it grows where I grew up, ~5000 miles away.

I hadn't tried any of the other salads; now they are both in The List.

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

IIRC it's Veronica persica, one of several speedwells that you can find around. As you'd expect from the name, a European import, but not exactly objectionable. All of the speedwells seem to be rather cheerful, though I personally find the little species ones prettier than most of the cultivated fancy ones I've seen so far. (There is one tiny thing, I forget the species, that has flowers about 1.5 or 2 mm across. You blink, you've missed them. Can't imagine what pollinates it, unless the pollen carries on the wind. Maybe there's some kind of teeny tiny hover-fly or something...)

I s'pose someone could select V. persica for flower-garden use, as I see quite a bit of variation in color and flower size. There are patches down in DC with flowers almost half an inch across.

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The jasmine rice salad is big and (no surprise) full of rice, so it's almost the equivalent of a main dish, in terms of amount of food. Just so you know.

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jon