The new umbrella was delivered today. Lifetime guarantee,
not that I have ever had experience with that before,
not in an umbrella. We will see.

No rain has fallen today
even though the clouds overhead
totally look like rain.
The air doesn't have that sharp note of approaching rain in its odor;
it just feels and smells steamy humid.   


Outside the public library,
those tiny little purple flowers have opened up
which the bumblebees go crazy for.
The flowers are very new -- many buds have not fully opened.
Today, one single solitary bumblebee
was zooming around the flower plants in rapid circles
in between humping the blossoms.

But where there is one bumblebee,
there will be many many more.