Allergies killing me, but a nice surprise with spring: only one big tree in the yard looks like a goner. When you carve out a space in the woods, you worry about significant losses of trees, and of the 75 or so in the yard, looks like only one big and one small have passed in this first post-construction year. To me, I see both resiliency and something I don't have to pay for!

This week is lost to working the Esquire piece with Mark, so I'm letting a lot pass on blogging. So much to do on this piece and we're so late.

Neat news from last night though: Esquire won a National Magazine Award for national reporting (C.J. Chivers' amazing piece on Beslan, which won him a Michael Kelly award too). Esquire was nominated for general excellence but did not win this year. Apparently I didn't write enough last year.

Ahem!