I keep scanning for photo ops as I drive back and forth to work , but I can’t see through this blanket of gray. Here are a couple from the Southbridge Boathouse in Concord. We need sun.

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A funny, maybe on point, letter to the editor in response to a New Yorker article about Clinton and Obama.

“Packer’s article demonstrates that there is no real basis of comparison between the two candidates. May I suggest that the reason for the essay’s lack of substance regarding Barack Obama’s ideas is that his campaign feels more like a pleasant horoscope than like a run for the Presidency? (The kind that anyone can read and think, Yes! I want change, too! It’s amazing how well he knows me.) Is there anything wrong with a candidate who has had her eye on the Presidency for more than a few years, and who values her private life? I’ll choose an ambitious woman of substance over a fortune cookie any day.”

Ursula Oberg

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The second bloom from an amaryllis at Ginger’s.