Not a very good picture but Federal Hill in Providence. Lots of outdoor seating at nearby restaurants on a lovely summer night. There was a street musician singing Frank Sinatra songs. It was so much fun.

Fred is recuperating from his surgery on Thursday. He had a growth removed from his side. I get the results of the biopsy back sometime this week.

A Heart Shaped Lenticular Cloud Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Kunze Explanation: Can a cloud love a mountain? Perhaps not, but on a Valentine's Day like today, one might be prone to seeing heart-shaped symbols where they don't actually exist. A fleeting pareidolia, the featured heart was really a lenticular cloud that appeared one morning last July above Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand. A companion video shows the lenticular cloud was mostly stationary in the sky but shifted and vibrated with surrounding winds. The cloud's red color was caused by the Sun rising off the frame to the right. Lenticular clouds are somewhat rare but can form in air that passes over a mountain. Then, vertical eddies may form where rising air cools past the dew point causing water carried by the air to condense into droplets.

Such a nice assortment of photo subjects today.A Spring scene. The big mulberry tree behind, to the left, is coming down tomorrow. Just grew too large and intrusive. The birds and critters will miss it. :( I'm hoping not too many daffodils' heads are poking up now, as I'm sure the workmen will stomp all over them. Esp. since last Fall I planted two new beds of them between the mulberry and the leaning old apple tree in the rear on the right.