Walking the Dog

 

Look Up!

 The weather reports show a good week for Albuquerque's annual Balloon Fiesta. 

It has been a long time since I felt tempted to brave the crowds and traffic at the event site.  My usual strategy is to keep a camera loaded with film and wait for some balloons to pass over my house.  The chances look a bit thin this year for that to work as the slight predicted winds are mostly pointing the wrong way.

The VP Debate

 I doubt anyone will claim that the needle was moved in either direction by the performance of the VP candidates in terms of the election outcome.  Vance may have earned himself a little less critical assessment by the "undecideds".  The thing is that he had a very low bar to clear.  All he had to do was not spout the wild lies about immigrants eating pets to look more like a normal person.  It was unsurprising that he also carried forward Trump's waffling about abortion, apparently betting on the idea that Americans' memory is already foggy about the fact that Trump packed the Supreme Court to undo women's right to chose.  He may be right with that assumption.