It's raining today, and not very warm, but it is still a beautiful day. I took this picture through the dining room window. What a joy to see the first hint of green in the tree tops, as the buds begin to open into leaves. The rain was necessary - there have been a number of grass fires around the edges of the city in recent weeks.
This may be a perfect weekend for reading, although Louise wants to go out and shop for new living room furniture. I just received some new books I bought on the Internet, one from Amazon and five from Merlin.pl in Poland.
The first is The Romantic Exiles by E.H. Carr, a story about Alexander Herzen and the rise and fall of the revolutionary upheavals that swept across Europe in 1848. It provides an account of the family tragedy described in Volume II of Herzen's memoirs, a passionate and doomed love affair between Herzen's wife Nathalie and the desperate poet George Herwegh.
The Polish books included a biography, Roman Dmowski, by Krzysztof Kawalec (Ossolineum, 2002), and four volumes from the Biblioteka Narodowa series of the Ossoliński institute: an anthology of Polish romantics, selected works of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, selected writings of Józef Piłsudski, and Romans Teresy Hennert by Zofia Nałkowska (ISBN 83-04-04573-7).
It will have to rain for quite a while for me to finish these, as I am still in the middle of Noel Coward's Future Indefinite.
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