Herring River and another forest path.

View of a salt marsh with a stream though the reeds, trees set back from the bank, and a gray cloudy sky above.

View of a forest path covered in brown leaves with trees on either side.

Forest paths.

View of an autumn forest with bare branched aspen trunks in the foreground and pine trees in the background.

View of an autumn forest from beneath the pins with only a few leaves on the branches in the background.

View of a narrow trail through an autumn forest.

This is what I’ve been thinking the past four years: New York Times

Back on the Cape.

Bank of a tidal creek with a bit of corroded machinery on the cobble in the foreground.

Steps leading up a small hill into a pine forest, with sunlight streaming through the branches.

View of a wooden bridge over a creek, with buildings and a white church steeple on the far bank.

View of a tidal creek from a small hill, with tree trunks in the foreground.

Broccoli and sausage, before and after. 🍕

Close up of broccoli and sausage in a skillet on top of a stove.

Since I’ve already cast my vote I don’t feel the need to watch or even pay attention to the debate/debacle which is taking place this evening.

Waiting impatiently for the first public release of photos from OSIRIS-REx touch-and-go asteroid “landing.”

New avatar!

View of a small pond, with a mix of green and red leaves on the trees, and a group of three dark tree trunks on the left.

Turkey pepperoni on top this week. 🍕

A small pepperoni pizza on a cooling rack.

Should I start cross-posting to Twitter? Assuming that it starts working again…

Twitter is down and I’m anxious I’m going to miss something! Send help.

View from below of tree branches with a mix of green, red and yellow leaves, with the sun shining behind in a clear blue sky.

My ballot has been “accepted” which means that it’s in the system and will be counted…but not until election day. That day can’t come soon enough.

Rainbow adirondack chairs in Belmont, MA, 5:30 PM EDT (UTC-4) for A Day in the Life. Sharing snapshots from neighborhood walks and viewing similar photos from around the world helps keep me connected in these crazy times.

The side of a brick building with steam escaping from some pipes on the side, with picnic tables and adirondack chairs chairs on the lawn in front.

Close up of a glass sculpture, a yellow globe rising from a green and brown base, lit from above with a dark background.

There is a drop box outside town hall, ballot has been delivered!

Town of Watertown official ballot drop box.

Alas I can’t deliver my ballot today (Monday) as town hall is closed for “Columbus Day” (more recently known as Indigenous People’s Day), so I will need to wait until tomorrow. The land near town hall was used for fishing by Massachusett indigenous tribes prior to colonization.

Ballot arrived! I have voted, but now I need to wait until Monday to drop it off.

According to the state’s election site my ballot is on its way. As soon as I fill it out I’m going to take it down to town hall and drop it in the box.

If it’s Friday it must be PIZZA! 🍕

Anxiously waiting for my ballot to arrive in the mail. The sad part is that it hasn’t even been mailed yet.

Afternoon view of a field with trees on either side and in the background, a few puffy clouds in the sky above.

Season 1 Finales 📺

I didn’t expect the first season of Raised by Wolves to end well for the characters, but I was not happy with the jarring plot twists of the finale; the series’ careful pace was discarded for a bewildering sequence of unexplained changes and events. Few of the mysteries were resolved and several new ones were added in a seemingly random fashion. I’m not sure I want to continue down this road again after what happened to Lost.

Contrast this with Ted Lasso, where the character arcs were properly curved, the final episode was built on what had come before rather than abandoning logic and reason, and I felt a sense of closure rather than confusion. It achieved both a satisfying end point for the first season and a clear setup for next year.

I also just finished re-watching season 1 of The Mandalorian, and it has the best concluding episode of the lot by far, with all the spectacle and surprises of Wolves combined with the meaningful character arcs of Lasso. I am definitely watching season 2 when it is released in a few short weeks.

Chicken meatballs, roasted green peppers and red onions 🍕