Bass

I have started reading the local fishing forecast, to find out if my nearby lake is swimmable.  So I can aqua-run.  Like aqualung but less skeevy...

Apparently it's prime bass season.  They like to freeze their little tushies off, I guess.  Mid-August and 48 at night...

Crazy flowers

Don't they know it's going to frost?

Skies

The wall of smoke from the Boundary Waters fire up north, seen from downtown, and the morning sky.

The Northland is feeling pretty southern

"Today is expected to be another in a series of sizzlers for the Twin Cities, with a high forecast of 97, and the heat index (throwing in humidity's consequences) says it will feel more like 118." -STrib

I was going to write a long post yesterday and really try out my computer, but it was too hot and refrigerator shopping took too long.  Their a/c was out, so it was fun...