Work on sanding down the old Ford van continues in the street. The guy now wears a mask. The windows have been removed. I'm kind of glad we live in the kind of neighborhood of million-dollar houses where someone can power-sand an old van in the street, and where kids can have a portable basketball hoop set up in the street (opposite). But that sander is loud, and the spare-the-air alert continues.

They seem to have forgotten they stuck the rose bushes in a pot; far right, dying of thirst, poor things.

They seem to have forgotten they stuck the rose bushes in a pot; far right, dying of thirst, poor things.