This morning Nelson and I went to Selkirk Shores State Park. It’s a potentially nice park. We had lunch under a beech tree from which we had a great view of Lake Ontario framed by beech leaves. Sadly, the effect was spoiled somewhat by hordes of flies. They were made all the more disturbing by the fact that we suspected them of having first visited the piles of rotting fish on the beach. Oh, and yes, the wafting odours did not help with lunch.
After lunch I dropped Nelson off at the airport in Syracuse. On the drive in we saw a sign that said that the current temperature was 100 degrees. It was blazing hot; still, I think it was a tad less than 100. Low 90s would have been my guess. Not that it makes much of a difference: either makes for misery.
And I needn’t have bothered dropping him off. He just called to say that it turns out that he will be flying tomorrow, thanks to the computer problem and thunderstorms that have messed up the airports in NYC today.
Meanwhile, I am hoping for a thunderstorm or two here. It would be nice to be able to breathe again.
Sydney
Alan Schmierer