Pi Day is a particularly strange fake holiday. Email promotions so far include two different vendors offering special wine discounts. 🤔
My favorite bird site in January 2023.
Taking a much-deserved break from the house-moving activities.
Sunset on the Charles River yesterday ⛵️
“Alpine Highball”: gin, yellow chartreuse, Campari, orange-rosemary soda
Lunch view 🌆
Like Sunday morning
Seeing all of the unmasked, coughing people in the airport is gross. 😷
Window shopping in Staunton, Virginia
Night walk in Salem
(iPhone night mode shot)
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Visiting Longhopes Donkey Shelter in Bennett, Colorado.
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#ThirstyThursday : it’s nearly Friday
It’s quite a relief to return to dining on the deck again.
Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, Virginia
This year has been tiring, with far too little joy. I guess that’s why I thought I’d assemble the Christmas tree 2 weeks too early. #mbnov 🎄
Peated bourbon from Kings County Distillery is puzzling. Does it taste like scotch-y bourbon or bourbon-y scotch? So I thought a Rob Roy/Manhattan cocktail made perfect sense for Friday cocktails. #mbnov
Stoop seems like an excellent word for 2020. I still have hope that things will start looking up, but… #mbnov
I’ve always been a cranky old man in a less-old (?—less true each year) body. But nature still manages to astonish. Autumn sunlight is my favorite light, and the light streaming into our library on this clear afternoon was gorgeous. #mbnov
