Yesterday, without warning and in defiance of Accuweather, cold spring skipped actual spring and became summer. Yesterday's high, which was supposed to be 79˚F, was 86˚F. And it looks as if the same thing might happen today. At 12:08 p.m. it's 83˚F (with a heat index of 86˚F ( Read more... )

A rather spectacular thunderstorm this morning. Now it's cloudy, and cooler than it's been lately ( Read more... )

Cloudy today, and a bit cooler.

I had in mind to write something about the UN report on the world's devastated fish stocks and the very real possibility that, at this rate, the oceans will be essentially devoid of fish by 2050. Or, more specifically, about the aggressively, proudly idiotic comments stories like these generate on the internet. And ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we drove to Athens to visit an old friend I'd not seen in many years. Lately, it occurred to me how very odd it is that I've lived in Atlanta for more than four years and not once made the hour+ drive east and north to Athens. Yesterday, I found out why. Too many memories there, of one sort or another. A memory minefield, and I ( Read more... )