By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Hen Track of the Day

Readers have been so proud of the mockingbirds I’m going to maintain doing them. Now getting into Week Three!

Lengthy-tailed Mockingbird, Highway to Ronquillo at -14.80588, -74.78986, Ica, Peru. “Birds singing on prime of tall cacti early within the morning.”

Readers, this Water Cooler is abbreviated as a result of I’m ending up a publish on the “Insect Apocalypse.” Herewith some present occasions as dialog starters:

“Schwab, Constancy, different on-line buying and selling brokerages seem to go darkish throughout enormous market sell-off” [Associated Press]. “A number of on-line brokerage corporations together with Charles Schwab, Constancy and Vanguard gave the impression to be down for 1000’s of customers early Monday throughout one of many largest inventory markets sell-offs of 2024. Person stories appeared to peak round and simply earlier than 10 a.m. ET, information from outage tracker Downdectector exhibits. Some pissed off prospects on-line stated that they have been unable to log in or entry their account balances.” • Not like what Goldman did to Michael Burry in The Massive Brief, I’m certain. Honor roll:

In the meantime, “to the naked partitions!”

That is New York. I think about related scenes in California.

Contact info for crops: Readers, be happy to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn the way to ship me a test in case you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn the way to ship me photographs of crops. Greens are wonderful! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary crops! If you would like your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it initially of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize by utilizing your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From jsn:

jsn writes: “Hollyhock in entrance of the outdated retailer.”

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