Science advances, funeral by funeral

Air temperature 61 F, wind near calm, patches of fog. Should be able to get out on a longer bike ride.

(no subject)

No man is an island entire of itself; every man 
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; 
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe 
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as 
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine 
own were; any man's death diminishes me, 
because I am involved in mankind. 
And therefore never send to know for whom 
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. 

Sunday roadkill report

One probable muskrat, one probable snapping turtle -- both rather old and flat, hence the "probable."

First jewelweed sighted, along with copious amounts of goldenrod and tansy and cornflower. May or may not have seen an aster.

Got out on the bike, upriver to my eagle overlook with no eagles, thence across the bridge and down the other side, with a couple of miles of meander thrown in. Did not die.

29.56 miles, 2:23:39