Of birds and banana bread

Thus far, I have been unable to identify the eagle? I saw last week. I am somewhat frustrated by this--if it had been a plant, I'd have had it ID'd six ways from Sunday by now. But birds? I can distinguish a red-winged blackbird from a grackle, but all smallish brown birds are "sparrows", unless I'm in the mood to call them "wrens". But if you need someone who can tell you what is yellow sorrel and what is black nightshade, I am your woman. (Happily, the two look nothing alike because the first is edible and the second is very much not.)

And while on the topic of edible things, I am posting my Ancestral Banana Bread Recipe. This is another of my Grandmother's recipes via my mom, and like the Ancestral Pumpkin Pie it is really good. I find it less heavy than most of the other ones I've sampled at other people's houses. ( Read more... )