Evening after rain

April

And none of them are "official"

 Three hundred and fifty languages are spoken by U.S. residents;  many speak two, some more.

English is the principle language for 80% of Americans, nearly 13% speak Spanish (the U.S. has more Spanish-speaking residents than does Spain); Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, French and French Creole, Arabic, Korean, Russian, and German round out the top 10.

No language is the official language of the United States.

The weather will get warmer eventually. We think.

Out of the blue

Street

This is getting serious

Signs

Noted…

…by our Pacific Rim bureau chief, who says she gets turned around in New York too.

Baby seal rescued after it was found wandering the streets of Long Island

Residents called police after the seal was seen wandering through a Long Island parking lot, police Sgt. Jim Cavanagh told CNN. The seal made its way toward the entrance of a nearby hotel before it was contained in the traffic circle, Cavanagh said.

25 Miles

Bones

Bike

"A file of shame"

World hurtling to climate danger zone, brakes half-pulled

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.

This is a failure of politics.

Where there's an arm, there's a way

Man in Germany gets 90 COVID-19 shots to sell forged passes

BERLIN (AP) — A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.

Something strange going on with this bush

Of course you know this

 But just for the record, today is Cheese Weasel Day.