The center of a lotus blossom in bloom…

It’s been pretty busy around here, but Lucy and I will be back to our ball-chasing, nostalgia-rousing selves soon. I do see…feel, rather…that our heat wave here has broken, if for only a few days. It’s definitely back-to-school weather, and I’m feelin’ an urge to slip into a pair of saddle oxfords and dig out a woolly sweater… .