I’m paying more attention to library architecture – Cobleskill, Granville, Edgartown, and the distinctive beauty of the Carnegie Libraries come to mind. A lot of libraries are expanding or trying to expand and their communities are scrambling to come up with money to help them. The Edgartown Library, like the others I’ve seen, is bustling, vital and much loved. Heading back towards the farm Sunday morning, and it will be a fairly long drive to get home. It’s time to get back to life. Gallery 99 art show is just two weeks away and I might be called to jury duty on Monday People ask me if I miss the dogs. Not really. I love them and love seeing them, but I also love traveling around with Maria and being able to focus on the new things I am seeing and the people I am meeting.

They are doing fine without us. I’ve ever had a dog who suffered from “separation anxiety”, and I’d like to keep it that way. They don’t need it and neither do it.