There are many ways to post to Micro.blog. Usually I use the Mac app or MarsEdit. Not sure if Drummer still allows me to send a post over to the blog. Let’s test it.

Watched: A Few Good Men a couple of times this week. Just seemed to fit the mood of the country. 🍿

Last night, after I returned from the Science Communicators of North Carolina annual SONCIES awards ceremony, this year at the NC Botanical Garden (winners will be listed here soon), I joined the family upstairs for a viewing of the always sweet Far From the Madding Crowd. 🍿

Micro.blog is throwing an error for my Wan Smol Blog and photos are showing correctly. Maybe I need to update the mnml theme or a plugin.

Also in the ginger lily was this anchor stink bug.

Hiding in the stalk
of the white ginger lily,
tiny gray treefrog.

Washington Spirit vs. San Diego Wave at Audi Field on a perfect October Sunday. A 2-1 win in extra time!

Signs of the times, Washington, D.C.

No Kings posters.

Rapa Nui moai on the campus of The American University in Washington, D.C. Marker says this was gift of Chile to their friends in the U.S.A. (Seems to be a replica.)

Kitchen makings in process: homemade grenadine (recipe and fun story), vanilla extract (recipe). Finished over the weekend: roselle syrup (recipe). What’s next: orange bitters (recipe from Bitters by Brad Thomas Parsons).

Much fun at the 28th annual Carrboro Music Festival. After 2 hours of soccer this morning and 3 hours of walking stage to stage, I am beat.

Tomorrow is the 28th annual Carrboro Music Festival, with 100 bands throughout the day. I’ll be there, after morning pick-up soccer, of course. Join us! It’s free.

For the vinyl collection

In Pittsboro today, at Screaming for Vintage, I picked up Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel.

Then, in Saxapahaw, these five singles from the Record Booth stall inside Saxy-A-Go-Go:

[trying to fix a typo in the title. update, please]

A hot few days but the maple leaves are floating down and the hickory nuts are dropping with a thud.

Another awesome show by The Heavy Heavy. My second time seeing them, tonight at Motorco in Durham. They have energy and licks and tunes. Love this band.

Nothing bums me out more than seeing a turtle smashed in the street. Soon we’ll see dead cooperhead snakes. This is dangerous times for creatures on the move.

A surprise today as I was driving up the gravel road, noticed a dark spot that didn’t seem like one of the many maple leaves that have started to fall (oaks are waiting). I got out to look, and found this turtle already scrambling into the woods. Love his little tail.

A gorgeous evening for pops music by Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle on the green at Southern Village (Chapel Hill, NC). Including an awesome performance of Kauyumari by composer Gabriella Ortiz, now Johnny Cash tribute. Conductor Niccolo Muti and orchestra are on fire.

I don’t seem to have a good linkblog setup (need to connect my Feedland install to S3) so here’s a link I want to save/share: Escaped slaves on St. Croix hid their settlements so well, they still haven’t been found – archaeologists using new mapping technology are on the hunt

Jesse Welles was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday in this story about Farm Aid at 40.