A pair of hooded orioles has woven a hanging nest in the banana tree in my front yard.

I've lived in L.A. for 55 years and have never seen one before, so-- climate change, probably.

I'll take the good with the bad.

See if you can spot the cat.😂

She was a real booklover.

We inherited ~two thousand books when my wife's father-in-law passed away.

As we already had a shit-ton of books and a very small house, we couldn't keep them all.

We were probably horribly taken advantage of-- we weren't willing to research every volume in order to ask a fair price from someone knowledgable. All sold to a local used book store.

Saved what I *could* recognize: eg. signed first edition Le Carre