Sprayed clouds, New England summer, late afternoon. I must note the blue of the sky in my pictures (taken one hour apart) is wrong. It was that dirty haze, a milky blue with a damp gauze across it, that has mainly replaced the living, cobalt blue of fine weather -- fine weather itself having been all but lost this summer. Knock wood: no fires, no hurricanes, no flooding (still digging out elsewhere in the region), but I would say the climate engineers haven't forgotten us. It's been so hazy, cloudy or rainy, though, you often can't see their handiwork so well.