Moving slowly

This little bee, or fly, or hover fly (not sure), wasn't looking too energetic on the cosmos, even in full sun. Coming to the end of the season. There is still a constellation of blossoms, and we haven't yet had a hard freeze.

Bit of a restless day that included gloomy conversations about the ecological cost of proposed large-scale ground solar installations (the cost of not installing them would be much higher, I know). Heard some flabbergasting statistics about the amount of electricity used by the data centers in our county.

Got home and rearranged the living room.

The extra is from Isabelle; I kept forgetting to post it. It's an image of the rainy trick-or-treating on the Lawn at UVa.