Scene This Week In…

What I really wanted to write about is the last brownie. You know that sliver of baked good that remains in the pan after everyone else has grazed through it. When I saw this sitting on the kitchen counter I thought, “That’s not even half a brownie!”

I know, I know, the joke is that all the calories reside in the last piece which is why it remains behind. We all know that isn’t true. I think it has more to do with guilt. No one likes to be fingered as the one who ate the last brownie.

But this post is supposed to be about scenes I noted in Ellicott City and Columbia this week and while the brownie sliver in question was in Ellicott City it could just as easily been in Columbia.

So…

In Columbia I was struck by the lack of progress on cleaning up the site from the fire at Lynn’s Day Spa last December. It has been almost five months since the fire and the building still looks like it did the day after. I would think that by now at least the fire debris would have been carted away.

In Ellicott City, it was the cricket players that caught my eye. I know I’ve already posted on this but I have since learned something new about Desai Siddabathula. Besides being my neighbor and the guy who is starting a local cricket team, he and his wife Jyothi are opening a new store in Ellicott City called the Village Market and Café. The new venture will take over the space formerly occupied by Soto’s Grill which closed last summer. Desai and Jyothi hope to open this July.

And, speaking of food, for those of you still wondering about the fate of that last sliver of brownie…Mama Wordbones ate it.