A walk and an invitation

Friday morning, another hot day to come, I walked to the pond in the shade 

Here's the frog beach, this morning packed with jumpers, who leapt away into the phragmites grass when they spotted me.

And here's an invitation. Caption this 

I did this on spoutible and got some wonderful takes. So if you want to join in, please do. You've seen it before but I hadn't realized what good caption material it makes.

It's an antidote to the news.

And I continue to empty the kitchen. And find items I forgot I had. Offering this handy big metal tray on Freecycle 

I've had it for decades, picked up on a posh Western Princeton (read one per cent) street after the recyclers wouldn't take it. Sheet iron, they were collecting aluminum.  But I now have other useful trays and don't need this collectible one. It had ghastly olde worlde floral designs until I enameled it white and liked it much more.

Happy day everyone, if you don't like something, paint it.

Meanwhile the late afternoon weather 

The good news was I didn't have to go out in feels like 104°f to water the plants. Massive rainstorm.