Sitting by the river, watching the clouds in the water.

An antique rye bottle. Alas, the wedding is not of these two distinguished gents but of five different whiskeys. A pity. I'm going to imagine an alternative past where they lived happily ever after.

Sally Grotta and Marianne Porter.

Rich Horton.

Charles Oberndorf.

Chris Edwards.

Lawrence Schoen.

Sally Kobee.

Todd Sanders, publisher, and Janice Pixie, artist.

Michael Walsh and Darrell Schweitzer.

Geoffrey Landis and Mary Turzillo.

At the Eest Overholt Museum Where Old Overholt Rye was born

Some books I left on the freebies table.

I'm in America!

Art.

Marianne made a chapbook for me to give away at my kaffeeklatsch at Confluence. Pittsburgh-related essays, some fictional, some factual, or maybe not. No plans to sell it have been made yet.

At the auction house: Buck Roger's Disintegrator Guns.

Cocktail Hour! Tonight: Aviations. Served with crackers and a variety of cheeses.

Happy Fourth! Today I salute Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, Abigail Adam's, and all the other patriots who fought for diversity, Equity, and inclusion.