Almost summer

Even in a densely populated area of Brooklyn, the birds are singing in the sunshine this morning. With the windows open, and the light traffic for this time of day, I can almost imagine I am in a more wooded place... and then the light changes up the block and a garbage truck roars past.

This Memorial Day weekend is also the first sunny warm weekend in awhile; although not the first of the season, the intervening weekends have been cold or cloudy or outright rainy. I hope most people are flocking to beaches and weekend homes - I want to enjoy the city in relative peace.