Been a while...

Things have been the usual busy times, with only mildly interesting stuff going on and then probably only to me.

We have had a return to beautiful clouds tho. After the hurricane's passage we seemed to have lost a star quality previously evident in the skies, so I'm glad to see the shapes and colors and flat-out speed these things evince back again.

Labor Day was a welcome holiday. Of course I worked, at home, but I'd worn myself out enough that I wallowed in naps and reading, too. Didn't go anywhere, didn't do anything.

The post office had required that all multi-unit houses, like ours, sport mailboxes in a communal spot evident and proximate to the road by the end of August, and the landlord duly installed them at the very last moment. At a guess these are something he has hung on to from other locations...I rather like my Apt 1 lettering, in its, shall we say, naif style.

You know it is slow when I report a haircut as news...With family visiting later this year, I've passed on trying to winkle out any significant vacation time to go anywhere until a prospective trip in the spring. I found an eco-hotel I'm enthusing about in northern Spain, in the Picos de Europa, an area I'd come very close to booking a hiking trip earlier. I think I will use that as a base for a while, then either work my way thru Burgos, Segovia, Salamanca and Seville - and save the wonderful Moorish architecture of Andalusia for another trip - or leap down south and burrow in to it for the second week of the visit. So I'm gathering my reading to properly prepare...you know how I am.

The photos - views from a couple sites, those mailboxes, a plant called turkeyberry (I think) with wonderful purple beads....don't have a clue what it 'does', just liked the purple. And maybe some clouds.