Autumnal daybreak

Air temperature 53 F, wind northwest about 3 mph, cloudy. Fog overnight, but it had lifted by the time I got up. Some patches of rain on the weather radar, offshoots of Ophelia. Have hopes of a bike ride once we warm up a bit.

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My world doesn't need Kardashians.

Sunday woolly bear report

Little fuzzy caterpillars have begun their annual pilgrimage. Some make it across the road. Some don't. And a lot of them look small. Don't know what that means for winter survival.

Other roadkill seen, a probable raccoon spread far and wide on an uphill, brownish bird across the road in the bog, could be an immature gull, grouse, or raptor at that distance, and a couple of squirrels.

No geese, ducks, or herons at the cemetery pond.

Flowers limited to asters and a few defiant chicory. Milkweed pods splitting open.

Got out on the bike, did not die. Season winds down.

15.35 miles, 1:21:34