Andy called me outside to see it when the heat began. At the sun’s zenith, we peered down into the empty pool frame and looked at the sand. There, fluttering about, was this beautiful butterfly. A dark wonder dotted with markings of blue, it toured the cavernous sand pit, rising out of the depths and crossing first by Andy and then by me. It swung around the weeping larch, then brushed past us again. Pausing at the cup plant, doting on the ostrich ferns, and finally soaring over the dogwood and into the sky beyond our yard, it would come back to visit a couple of times over an overheated weekend. Summer is at hand. On with the weekly recap…
Our backyard tried to keep us cool.
This #TinyThread poked through the heat.
Zac Efron’s shirtless and widely-appreciated new body.
Pretty pooper without a party.
In a world of racists, be an antiracist.
Hunks of the Day included Daveed Diggs and Calvin Martin.
