Sunrise — 6:33.

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Autumn edges in.

This morning at 7:

Sunrise — 5:48, 6:15, 6:18, 6:19.

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Bonus: The western view, at 6:25.

Forest walk — 4:13.

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Sunrise — 6:12 — and early afternoon — 1:00.

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Prairie walk.

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Sunrise — 6:12.

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Later, at 1:36:

Total steps: 11,737.

"why does the horse have three ears"/"So he likes 7 foot tall women? Or is he riding a pony?"

X users rain on Musk's boyish dream.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 9, 2025

Sunrise — 5:33.

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Bonus: Water lillies at sunrise:

At the Forest Path Café...

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No sunrise today. It was raining. That's a photo from 3 days ago. Here, this is from today.

It stopped raining and we got out. Meade got me to notice the goldenrod.

At the Wednesday Café...

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There was a big thunderstorm this morning, so I couldn't get out for the sunrise, but here are some photographs I took of flowers at sunrise on July 16th and 19th:

Sunrise — 5:16, 5:18, 5:30.

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Sunrise — 5:33.

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Sunrise — 5:22, 5:23.

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At the Fireworks Café...

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Sunrise — 5:29, 5:33, 5:57.

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"'Fake flowers are better than real,' my 5-year-old daughter, Jane, asserted as we dined on grilled cheese in a Baltimore restaurant strewn with artificial phlox. 'They don’t get all messed up.'"

From "Finding Beauty in Fake Flowers" (NYT).

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The little girl is wrong because...

Real is inherently better than fake.

The prospect of decline makes beauty poignant.

Real flowers connect you to the natural world.

Real flowers are better for touching and smelling.

Fake flowers do get messed up — dirty, dusty, and yet you don't throw them away.

The little girl is not wrong.

 

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I caught a glimpse of my own obituary.

In the email this morning, the Google alert I've had on my name for decades brings this:

I send that image to Meade (along with the link to the website the alert wants me to click), and this conversation follows:

Sunrise — 4:59, 5:19.

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Sunrise — 5:15, 5:38, 5:40.

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