Spaldings back to Sudbury airport en route to Batavia by way of Toronto and Chicago. Off they go. But actually nice for us, too, to be back in our old routine. All told, a pleasant and interesting week, in spite of all the falling down.

Yesterday, on our walk to the falls, we saw, just a few yards down from the cataract, a group of four or five boys, maybe middle school age, wading in the river. Quite suddenly, a great deal of agitation—shouting and squealing, and jumping about. City kids clearly, on an excursion, seeing a bit of the natural world—river and waterfall. And they had found a snake!

Mixed in with the excitement a few “eewws” and a few “yuks.” Then the group began picking up rocks and smashing the reptile into paste.

Way to go kids, you've got the world figured out.

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“You get what you give, and not only that, the giving is already the getting. So don’t hold back. Don’t look back or forward too much. Just be there where you are now. You’re always only in the day you’re in.”
—Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora