Your mother and I are very proud.

There is an orange balloon poking its big bald head up over the trees, btw. I have not yet secured a ride in it. On the list.

bedazzled by plastic bags after a big rain and its big flood.

Sort of an industrial water-color thing. Let us not dwell on what it is that is giving the image that quality, which is gunk clinging to the train window.

Possibly my favorite morning thing. Not in this photo: a shocking number of hawks.