…since I last posted, and goodness knows how I coped…but I feel happy to report that I have coped.

We watched the Fourth of July fireworks from a friend’s apartment terrace:

Hearing a loud whistly call from a Lantana bush, I approached a wee bit closer and got the tailor:

see Chiddu’s blog about how someone I know very well has beaten the odds for more than a decade

A thread on a mailing list to which I belong, started talking about old Readers’ Digest, and of course, I fell to reminiscing (why does one have to fall to think back? Can’t one maintain one’s balance?)