I first learned about Torta Bella just before Christmas when the cake pictured above was left on my doorstep. It was an unexpected thank you gift from a friend who had been using my ridiculously-old, but still-functioning wheelbarrow all last summer and fall. The gift was a simply decorated, simply delicious carrot cake from Torta…
Sunday, February 17
Counting crows
If you are up early, or a light sleeper, you can't help but hear the persistent sound of crows exiting the neighborhood around 6:30 each morning, and then just as boisterously returning to the CWE at dusk, above and below. In December 2010, I included the following information in a post: "Central West End…