I'll be out on the front deck tonight and tomorrow night looking for shooting stars (and enjoying the scent of Nicotiana alata):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/nyregion/where-to-watch-the-perseid-meteor-shower-in-the-new-york-area.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below
Here's the daytime view (photo by Mary O'Connor)
I wrote in my last post about Frederick Delius, who might have fathered a mulatto child in Florida. Another even more likely Floridian was Prince Joachim Murat (in uniform, next to his mother, Napoleon's sister)
nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, who lived on this plantation
and became the mayor of Tallahassee and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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