Portents

Wore a jacket for the newspaper walk. Air temperature 50 F, dew point 45, wind WSW about 10 mph. Winter is coming . . .

Summer will still get in a few swipes at us, though.

A parable for our time

http://bangordailynews.com/2017/08/25/the-point/when-we-all-must-live-in-fear-of-online-mobs/

Effectively weightless

Just watched a chickadee land on a leaf of our maple tree, peck at something, and flit away. Not on a branch, not even on a stem, on the actual leaf ...

An image I did not need

The title of one of the groups playing in the music festival down by the river includes the phrase "the flying armadillos."

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Fuzzy crescent moon. I'm glad the dragon gave it back. Dragons tend to keep the moon longer than they keep the sun.