View from the outside

Air temperature 47 F, wind northeast about 8 mph, clear sky. Some areas in the Great North Woods had frost last night . . . overnight low here 38 F.

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Monday floral report

Rhododendrons blooming, bunch-berry on the forest floor, earliest yellow hawkweed. There are a few lawns where the hawkweed always shows up first, one section of one road. No idea why.

No roadkill. Saw a mockingbird chase a crow away from a known mocker area. After the crow got far enough away, the mocker landed on a fence with its tail and head up in a definite "And your mother, too!" posture.

Rode across to the airport/base, getting run over by a couple of KC-135s doing "patterns" again and again. Also, RAF A-400 and USAF KC-135 in the visitors' parking lot.

16.33 miles, 1:28:06