Doldrums

There's not much to write about these days. It's too hot to take afternoon walks -- we don't walk on Sundays now until 5 or 6 PM, when the sun gets low in the west and casts long shadows.

The weather is getting much more humid -- and clouds can be "thick" in the morning, but usually burn off by mid-day. We're using the A/C in our bedroom at night -- makes everything quite bearable.

School is closed for the "summer" break: All schools are off for the month of May. School starts again any where from 1 June to 15 June depending upon the school. I'm heading back to the States for the Field Ecology Governor's School in June and July, so I'll miss the beginning of monsoon and the first two months back in school.

This buffalo herd is a regular "feature" of this stretch of road. They really know how to walk right down the center line. A similar herd one block to the east prefers to march down the street abreast, and then lay down in the middle of the street nearly closing it off.