Spring in bloom

Our ornamental pear trees in the front yard are looking gorgeous this year. Generally we tend to get a lot of leaves and few blossoms, and I look at others' trees and feel cheated. This year ours was budding just before that last freeze, and I was worried that would kill the blossoms - but no, a few days ago they BURST into blossom. Especially the front one, it's just covered in white and beautiful. The jasmine bush/colony/whatever at the side of the walk is also blossoming, and the bees are very busy there. I think there's also birds nesting in behind it.

Not Another E-book Reader

http://www.naebllc.com/index.html

I just found this yesterday. Apparently somebody got fed up enough with the lack of a good ebook reader that they went to talk to Jim Baen about it - who told them "do one yourself" and gave them forum space to work from.

And they're doing it. It's not done yet. But it's in process. And their mission statement sounds pretty damn good to me.

Apparently it does handle mp3s - I guess for audio book use. I'm not an audio book person, but the one other piece of gadgetry I wish I had sometimes is a mp3 player, so hey, sounds good to me.

I don't know if we'd be able to afford one right away, but I did sign up on the list of "oh YES I'm interested". Asked a question and got a nice email back from them pretty quickly, too.

I recommend it to you all.

Blossom pictures

firedrake_mor asked for pictures of the blooming pear tree. Let it not be said I don't listen to my fans! :-P
( piccys! )