day 294 - another rainy Saturday forecast

Today is the 7th day of the 42nd week, the 21st day of the 10th month, the 294th day of 2023, and:

• 'Back to the Future' Day - the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown landed in the year 2015 in Back To The Future Part II.  And as a way to feel old today?  The first movie came out 38 years ago....
• Apple Day
• Babbling Day
• Bridge Day
• Celebration of the Mind Day
• Check Your Meds Day - sometimes, if you think about how you would like to live in olden days, just reflect on how many meds are keeping you going today and what your life expectancy would've been back then
• Count Your Buttons Day - doesn't everyone have a button box?  I've never counted mine though, and I really don't intend to, especially since I consolidated mine and the one from my mother's sewing box
• Garbanzo Bean Day
• Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Prevention Day
• International Day of the Nacho
• International Independent Video Store - it's good to know there is still one last Blockbuster open and doing business
• International Raw Milk Appreciation Day
• International Repair Day
• International Sloth Day
• National Fetch Day
• National Mezcal Day
• National Pets for Veterans Day
• National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day
• National Witch Hazel Day
• Reptile Awareness Day
• Sweetest Day
• The Whole Hog Barbeque Day
• World Esports Day 
• the moon is now at the first quarter as of 11:30 PM EDT
• and Voyager 1 is 22h 26m 58s of light travel time from Earth

Quote of the day:

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

~ Jonas Salk, American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines

Seems like an odd quote for the first day of the weekend, doesn't it?  Especially since I consider the reward for work well done is the ability to have leisure time with which I can do what I want [health and monetary considerations permitting, that is].  It also sounds more than a little cynical - do something well and get it in on time and you get more to do.  Yay?

Today is the kind of day that gives meteorologists headaches and bad dreams.  After telling us all week that the weekend was going to be wet because of a nor'easter, Saturday has been a very nice day overall.  I even sat out on my balcony for a bit when the sun was bright - that air was cool but the sun was warm enough to offset it.  

I like sitting on the balcony and just watching life and the clouds sail by

They don't usually work on the weekends, but there was definitely something going on this morning about the work being done in garage #4, which is underneath the parking lot I was giving construction updates on earlier this year.

Occasionally the sun goes in, but it definitely does not seem to be any danger of the continuous rain the forecasts were calling for!  It is rather windy, and this view EastSouthEast shows the the clouds scuttling across the sky over Building C of the complex

Turns out those who have tickets for this last weekend of the Maryland Renaissance Festival will have a good days after all, neh?

Looking EastNorthEast, you can see that the trees are finally starting to change colors.  The process seems to be very slow this year, probably because unseasonably warm temperatures have been lingering hereabouts, and most trees, as you can see, are still green, albeit looking a bit faded.  Because we also have drought conditions, some of the leaves are just going straight to brown.

When I went down to get the mail, I peeked out west through the windows next to the elevators.  It is a very narrow shot between the balconies of the building spur that parallels Route 29 [the buildings are roughly Y shaped] and the side of the elevator housing, and that brown line on the left is the edge of the concrete.  

The trees that are turning seem to be grouped, don't they?  It always surprises me, given how crowded this area is, that from the 20th floor, it doesn't look more urban!

May your weekend be full of things you like and want to do!