End of an era

Air temperature 70 F, wind northwest about 13 mph, cloudy. We didn't get much rain from the front that rumbled through, but this should be the backside of the heat wave for us. May try to get out on the bike.

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And a happy Canada Day to our friends and relatives to the north. And east. And west. And even those south of us.

Thursday floral report

Bellflowers starting to bloom, St. John's wort, Canada thistle, and that damned invasive alien purple loosestrife. Some of the last of the lupines still flowering. Lime trees drenching the neighborhood in cloying perfume.

USAF C-130 in the visitors' parking lot out at the base. No mockingbirds heard on this route.

Respite from the heat, 78 F now, but more wind than I'd like. Got out on the bike, did not die.

16.32 miles, 1:29:24