Terminal spiral

Air temperature 47 F, wind near calm, cloudy. The planet will get along without humans better than humans will get along without a planet.

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No amount of staring will turn those bumblebees into hummingbirds. They are fine bumblebees, large and active and concentrating on business, but they are not hummingbirds. In other azalea news, the catbirds are still interested in that real estate. They seem to be eating the flowers, which is new to me.

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If you don't want your opponent to exist, and your opponent doesn't want you to exist, and both sides are willing and able to act on their vision, it is hard to negotiate.

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Hummingbird!

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Further hummingbird report -- we have at least two. One male with the bright ruby bib, one drab female.

Note to the hummingbird-fanciers: we only get one kind around here, the ruby-throat. You folks in the Southwest get our hummer envy.