Thick o' fog morning

Air temperature 65 F, wind near calm, visibility under 1/2 mile at the airport. Thinning now, supposed to have showers and 80s F this afternoon. Air quality alert for the smoke that Canada keeps sending us. May substitute walk for bike ride.

Sunday floral report

Tansy and yarrow blooming, probable Queen Anne's lace, more daisies and vetch and hawkweed. Even a few late lupines not yet setting seed. Multiflora roses putting out heavy perfume.

Roadkill limited to one gray squirrel. Not-roadkill, a couple of woodchucks helping the mower crew out at the airport. Also two mockingbirds singing in known mocking zones.

"Eastern Air Lines" still parked at the airport, this time with a couple of zoomies to keep it company.

Got out on the bike, hot and humid but the bad air hasn't quite moved in. Did not die.

15.82 miles, 1:28:40

Thoughts inspired by sports on TV

I didn't realize until I was an adult that the Cubs vs. White Sox division in Chicago was class warfare. Dad worked in the Stockyards and I was born about three blocks from Leroy Brown's favorite bar, so we were Sox fans . . .