Valentine's Day

The lines were long at all the flower markets.
Which reminded me of the Myrtle Ave. subway station on the 'L' train in Brooklyn.  They had a brand name candy store, box of chocolates kind of company, like a Whitman Sampler.  I can't remember the name of the company; maybe it was Whitman.  I seem to remember it started with a 'B'.  Bachman's ?  Anyway, it was always open and never had a lot of people buying chocolates, until Valentine's Day when the lines were very long.
I wonder who it was that created the saint of romance.  Not anybody in today's church.  We're having another non-issue dominate politics.  The new health plan includes family planning; so the right wing and the Catholic Church oppose it.  They say it forces them to act against their beliefs.  Yet it has been the law in California for years, and they've complied.  Just more nonsense.
I went to the theater on Valentine's Day with Sandra and Nancy to see a piece by a member of Frank's theater group.  We left after the first act.

Then stopped off for an after theater drink at Joe Allen's on restaurant row.  That's where Nancy gave me a  beautiful Valentine's Day card.  It's a photo she took of a market in Morocco.  She's a great photographer,which is why her work is in the Smithsonian.  This photograph doesn't do the card justice and NO, she gave cards to everyone.