July 22

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The week of the 22nd was spectacularly gorgeous. Temps in the low 80s. Reasonable humidity. Blue skies with bright clouds.

I was dropped off at the library.

These plants are in the (very) large planter in front of the library. I had never seen red-leafed redbuds before these showed up here.







I walked the few blocks to my office, and opened the window. I will take a moment to be enthusiastically and sincerely grateful for this enormous window which *opens*.

Thank goodness for historical designations, and for being in a totally renovated and very beautiful old building.





I leaned out the window. Straight down -- I think this is an ailanthus. The new leaves are so red...... (Is it a walnut? I noticed the ailanthuses are blooming, which this tree does not seem to be doing....)






To the right -- the "gold sticker" cars in the parking lot. Gold stickers cost twice as much as blue ones, and blue ones are very expensive. (More gratitude, that I can take the bus or walk!)





To the left and up......

*Nice* day, eh? (More gratitude -- this has been a gorgeous summer!)





Ok.

Time to turn my back on the out of doors. I did leave the window open!



I made my tea.





Ready to work. Note my beachy multi-media art piece, a gift from my daughter. I enjoy it every single day.

Note also my good old Steelcase desk. These desks really function perfectly. One of my favorite things about it are these slidey-out extra workspace thingies. I have one on each side, and I use them alllllll the time. The elderly piece of paper taped on the left one is a souvenir of times gone by. Once upon a time I needed to know that stuff..........

You can see that my office dog is a bull terrier. We don't inquire why his tail is docked. He was a rescue (thrift store, rather than retail!).