I take OK pictures of birds sometimes. These are great pictures of birds.
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The Kindle version of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird is on sale for $1.99. It’s a pretty good book on writing.
Couple fossils from the creek bank. These are less than an inch on a side, so not huge. Neat though — usually we find them embedded into bigger rock. 🪨 📷
Discovered the fascinating macabre song cycle Ghost Quartet while working from home today. Written by the writer/composer of Great Comet and featuring a couple of the performers. A lot of the same musical DNA.
🛰 📷 ISS Flyover tonight in St. Louis
Enjoying a little homemade krupnik on ice over strawberries, and thinking I’ll probably make some more this fall.
“I’m the worst” — Central Park
“Don’t think about the failures, think about the future.” — Central Park
Steps leading down to the creek behind our house at about 4 p.m., 4:20 and 4:40 today as it was fell after 1.5″+ of rain. The fourth photo is from last year, slightly different angle, showing what the creek normally looks like.
I am working from the newsroom today for the first time since *gesticulates at everything* and thought, “well, at least I don’t need to update my calendar right away.” Then I realized that’s 2020.