I remember as a kid having breakfast outside on the steps some summer mornings. Why does that make everything feel so different?

First peach of summer:
fragrant, fuzzy, soft and sweet.
Gone quickly – eat now!

Deep red, orange, yellow
ridiculously fragrant
peach juice running down

eleven oh one:
supergiant galaxy
made of smaller ones.

Thanks for triggering today’s haikupedia, Rich!

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about these things. … The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. – William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

I have no problem making and putting on bindings. I can make the tube to make continuous binding – no problem. For a quilt this size though the tube would be rather small. So I took the edges off my pressed fabric and am cutting individual strips to sew together. My calculations say I only need five strips so I am doing six.

Was wondering why the cat cam was not showing the cat in view and when I checked the most recent ten images I found these: