Summer pleasures

Nothing beats the scent, taste, and feel of salt water on a summer evening on the coast of Maine. I enjoyed the ocean’s edge at Deer Isle tonight. Delicious.

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Interesting Urban Geography

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From The Weather Channel…

…and I had assumed that the Degree Symbol was being used to indicate the location of each city listed, which is way off the mark. Instead, the graphic artist appears to have plopped the huge (relative to the map scale) temp label in the general vicinity of the city. I would assert that this, obviously, fails because it draws my attention away from the message: it’s HOT out there.