Drier Night.

Here's what got better: the humidity. It's still warm, but we had the kind of evening that wanted for porch-sitting, and got it: a long day at the puppet show let go into a lovely evening of lime and ice and prison farm Adirondacking, dog laying up in the newly accumulated pollen and the forecast laying up in the same. We avoided the ten or twenty inches of rain that fell on Tennessee. We avoided storms altogether. We held on.

Warm through the end of the week. May is setting in. More in the morning, friends and fans of setting summer.