It's spring... more or less. I had a lovely day at the Royal Botanic Gardens in the city a few weekends ago, and couldn't resist taking some flower pictures. Here they are:

While I'm at it, I might as well put up the rest of my Spring pics as well... oak leaves from the Melbourne, new vine leaves from KG, and magnificent oaks at Domaine Chandon. I love the brilliant green you get at this time.

And here's the wash-up from the Internet today...

From The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Finding a light by James Lang. Review of a self-published book from a college professor about teaching college classes. The book is available for free online at the professor's Web site as well.

And Confessions of a Journal Editor by Jeffrey J. Williams, a piece about the joys and woes of the editing role and of academic writing.

Finally, it so happens that I'm reading this guy Robert Alter's book The Art of Biblical Narrative right now, for my translation paper on Wendland's "literary functional equivalence (LiFe) approach, and here he (Alter) is in Slate.com!

Psalm Springs: How I translated the Bible's most poetic book - Robert Alter writes about his new translation of the Psalms: