Just what we need.

I try to do a neighborhood loop every evening. Doesn’t always happen, but I try.

The upper is a blanket with scenes of my home town on it, the lower a quilt my oldest friend made for me years ago. Both stay close by in the home office.

Met some colleagues for lunch at Pulaski Heights BBQ (highly recommended) and then walked down the block to make a few frames, including of an old Saab.

I’m not sure what the proper response for a professor is when you find your students dancing to a song that was on the radio when you were in high school … but there they were, dancing to the tune of “Footloose.”

Strange place for a picnic, but okay …

Dark day on campus as the eclipse passed over us, blocking out 99.1% of the sun. Scattered my kids across the campus, county and state to cover the reaction and I wandered over to Sanford Stadium along with 25,000 others for a viewing party.

And it was hot, hot enough that some enterprising folks broke into an ice box when the concession stand lines got too long. Others took to the shade, but it was pretty darned cool in the end.