Another Mar­shall Alexan­der creation.

It is 57° and rain­ing in Aiken right now and the lit­tle red square ■ tells me it is 44°. By click­ing on the square, I get the weather page for Alexan­dria, Vir­ginia, where it is cloudy now, later tonight & tomor­row it will be rainy and mild. You know, now that I have com­plained about it, I’m almost hop­ing that they never fix it. The lit­tle red square ■ cre­ates a kind of arm­chair tourism, whisk­ing you away mag­i­cally to dif­fer­ent des­ti­na­tions. I only wish tonight it would have taken me to Oahu where our surfer girl is from.

Sumo by PaperTom

When I was grow­ing up in Con­necti­cut when you saw a robin in your yard that meant spring was on its way. Here in Aiken that doesn’t work so well, I don’t think the robins ever go away here. Today I saw three signs that Punx­sutawney Phil was cor­rect in his pre­dic­tion that spring is just around the corner.

The first thing I noticed that por­tends spring, even though we are still nearly a month from the ver­nal equinox, was a box of Girl Scout cook­ies on some­ones desk. Num­ber two was the Brad­ford Pear tree out­side the front door of the Valve Store™ was start­ing to bloom and lastly, and most trou­ble­some, was that there was a light coat­ing of yel­low pine pollen cov­er­ing the exte­rior of the Emperor when I parked it in the garage this evening.