D.O.P.-T.

We had two tiny rain showers the other day, which the weather service didn't deign to notice. Yesterday was almost entirely gloomy, today pretty sunshine, so I walked the dog at mid-afternoon before doing laundry, which worked out well; many of the other people must have been at work or school. The basketball courts are still padlocked and postered as closed, but a few days ago one teenager had got in under the chainlink and was shooting hoops; yesterday, a trio of youths were practising their soccer skills, and today a different trio and a lone woman inline skating.

( The nests high in the big old gingko trees. )