let 'em blow

well hi. what did i do this morning? well i rode to work. today it is a good 35 or so fahrenheit degrees cooler than yesterday. some folks will say "oh that's typical weather for michigan" but in fact it is typical weather for anywhere temperate, as an equinox approaches. to be sure, in mountainous regions you could get those (or greater) temperature swings virtually any time of the year. but hey. i like it here.

and the equinox really is on its way. last week i began hearing red-winged blackbirds, and a co-worker reports seeing sandhills in the fields near her home. it is not at all dark at 6:00 p.m., so let the four winds blow i say. although they were a bit of a problem this morning, 20 mph and gusting from the northwest. that will be a bigger problem on the way home.