6/30: seeing

...a deep pink cloud at sunset suddenly lit up from within by lightning.

6/29: an outing

...to Little Rock with Chris:  two museums and a restaurant for lunch in between.

6/28: a beautiful use

...of 3rd and 1st person pronouns in the opening paragraphs of Mary Stewart's Rose Cottage.

6/27: spending part of the day

...thinking about some of my favorite novels:  Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Framley Parsonage, and A Room with a View.  They are part of Pamela Regis' discussion in A Natural History of the Romance Novel, and it was fun to see them all brought into contact/conversation with one another.

6/26: uncrowded

There were very few people in the grocery store this evening!

6/25: reading

...a novel whose main character is named Penelope; hoping that the name is supposed to have some Homeric resonance; reaching a section which mentions the Odyssey explicitly.

6/24: smoother

My outbound trip to Pennsylvania had some glitches:  stressfully short layovers and delayed luggage.  My inbound trip back to Arkansas was smoother:  a shorter travel-day overall yet still including time for a leisurely lunch with beer in the Atlanta airport.

6/23: cock crow

Early this morning I took a final-for-now walk through the estate gardens and stood under a gigantic weeping beech as the roosters crowed.