Thursday morning

It's Garbage Day, again!


58 degrees, at a little after 5:00 A.M.


This was the temperature at 4:00, yesterday afternoon, on the vintage "Wickes" thermometer!

We may not see that, again, for a few days. The WKTV forecast:

• Thursday: Mostly cloudy, warm and humid with rain and thunderstorms. Rain may be heavy at times during the afternoon. High 78
• Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms, ending by morning. Low 57
• Friday: Partly to mostly sunny. High 76 Low 45

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Shirley Kellogg left me a phone message that she'd seen her first "Hummer" at the feeder .....

.....and she called, again, around suppertime to say that there was an indigo bunting eating thistle seed.
(Both of these photos are from Goodle Image searches.)

My favorite "sightings" of the day: the Norway Maples are blooming, and a bouquet of them is as sweet as any other flower.

"Virginia Bluebells."

There are baseball fans and there are "Yankees" fans .... and then there are "major league Yankees Fans" and just such a fan had parked his Corvette - complete with dark blue stripes and the "Yankees" logo on the hood - outside of CVS yesterday afternoon.

And his team won!

So did the Redsox, and the Standings are:

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The score here?

The answer is "Stucco!"

(....... in the middle of an Historic District that's on the National Register of Historic Places and where most of the buildings are of mid-nineteenth-century Italianate style?)

Some "sidewalk umpires" are calling it a "strike out."