“Warm Morning”

Olympus TG-6 @ 4.5mm, f/2.8, 1/640s, ISO 100. On the trail at Mount Pisgah.

wide trail through meadows with a few trees

Is Earth inside a huge void? ‘Sound of the Big Bang’ hints at possible solution to Hubble tension

Obviously the extraterrestrials have quarantined us due to the prevalence of idiocy on Earth.

Prime “Day” is now 4 days long. Half of my RSS feed has been hijacked by “best Prime Day deal” affiliate links.

I’m so happy I walked away from a decades-long Amazon relationship this year.

Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.’s MacArthur Park

Yeah, because who walks through a PARK without automatic weapons? I’m glad I don’t live in LA any more.

Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

War criminals gotta stick together, I guess.

Finished: These Restless Heads, by Branch Cabell 📚. Not a part of the Biography of Manuel (and therefore using the other variant of his name), this is a collection of Cabell’s essays on life and writing, together with one short story (or is it a parable of an aging poet?). I enjoyed it as I enjoy all of his writings, which pack in more style and vocabulary than any modern writer I know of.

“Hiding”

Olympus TG-6 @ 18mm, f/4.9, 1/100s, ISO 500. On the trail at Mount Pisgah.

a deer in the tll grass

Trump announces new tariffs of up to 40% on a growing number of countries

I don’t know which is worse, the coming (just in time for Christmas!) era of inflation, or the use of Trump’s semi-illiterate, rambling, random capitalization style on what are now official documents of the United States. I guess DOGE got rid of all the copy editors.

“Sunburst”

Olympus TG-6 @ 9.0mm, f/4.5, 1/500s, ISO 100. Shot at Wild Iris Ridge.

common madia flower