Oooh, look what came in the mail today, @thebulletin.org.

Turning tropical at the pool, at the Lighthouse Inn, Key West.

As Jon Stewart might say, “Now, your moment of zen.”

Morro Bay is extraordinary. And so damn pleasant.

Seen at the hands off demonstration in Santa Barbara today.

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The Williamson County Sun—a twice-weekly paper north of Austin—gave me my first reporting job, about which I still have fond memories. The publishers, Linda Scarborough and her husband Clark Thurmond were there when I started in the late 1970s—and are still there.

Colman Domingo was interesting to watch and listen to last night at the Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival. Oprah gave a little backstory as to how she knew him while giving him an award.

I still mourn my distinguished departed assistant Twig, pictured here preparing for a public presentation.

On second look, you could be right. The camera has a wide-angle lens that made it look the wrong shape for a cardinal. But it could be a juvenile female.

Watching Beatrice Fihn talking about the nuclear ban treaty, and how much she enjoys messing with the powerful. Fascinating.

I leased a Hyundai Ioniq 6 about a month ago after close comparison to Teslas. The Ioniq 6 drove better, gets better reviews (Car & Driver, Consumer Reports), looks better (kind of like a Porsche 911, IMO), has longer range (about 340 miles). Cost was about same. I highly recommend.

May your next sunrise be as nice as mine was yesterday.