"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong" (--Billy Collins)

There are just way too many numbers we have to keep track of in our lives:


Twelve months in a year;   
sixteen oz. in a lb; 
seven notes in a diatonic scale; 
one "X" in a game of Scrabble; 
eight slices in a pizza; 
le 6' ieme arrondissement;
$2.69/gallon of gas; 
four Dove bars in a box; 
channel 23 for HBO; 
2 minutes and 30 seconds to reheat a dish in the microwave;
six degrees of separation;
Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A Major, K 622...




"...and a partridge in a pear tree."


(please excuse the awful photo on the road as usual)