I hiked the mesa above El Malpaís National Monument on Sunday I noticed that parts of the sandstone trail were dark red It reminded me of the current COVID infection map of the U.S. I had a fleeting, fanciful thought that perhaps the earth itself was turning brick red to match the color of the hot spots This is all just to say that the COVID pandemic is never far from my mind
January 31, 2022
By now you get the idea that I like Fort Orange Brewing's products... This is from early 2021 sometime, I don't recall exactly when. It fits with the Perseverance beer label I just contributed. This beer label reads "A Bright Tomorrow," and depicts a sunrise over the Empire State Plaza. It represents the feeling that by Feb. 2021, with a new administration and vaccines being distributed, that the end of the pandemic may be in sight. We'll see. I write this on 9 March 2021.
March 10, 2021