No porcupines, please

Air temperature 69 F, wind south gusting to 18 mph, mostly cloudy with that high smoke haze. Rain supposed to hold off until sunset. Will try for a bike ride.

Biking through the soup

Jewel-weed blooming in the roadside ditch on a long uphill, where I can admire it properly. Lindens dropping flowers and failed seeds. More of the be-damned purple loosestrife.

Roadkill limited to a gray squirrel in the residential area. Young-crow noises abound, which promises a good cleanup crew for the future.

Two Luftwaffe zoomies out at the visitors' parking at the base, don't know if they are the same two as seen on Sunday. If they are, that implies a problem.

Got out on the bike, starting in on the hazy hot and humid. Air temperature 78 F and dew point 70, with a nuisance wind. Did not die.

15.68 miles, 1:26:04