That's too bad about the umbrella. They always make for a very frustrating sort of conceptual art, even when it's a rainy windy day in a major city and the rubbish bins become tight packed umbrella necropoles* which might actually be rather aesthetic if one weren't at that very moment being bombarded by water performing its very best impression of several thousand gross of shoemaker's knives.

I felt bad for the pandas, but I think "decorative" is the least endangered species.

Good point!

I am told it's going to snow tonight.

Did it? It dropped thirty degress between seven and eleven PM here, and turned from sleet to snow around when I got home from sessioning in Hamden. The yard was still mostly coveredd at noon, and patches of snow in the shade made it through the day.

ALL RIGHT, NEW ENGLAND, YOU CAN STOP NOW.

Word.

*Or should I say necropoleis?