Welcome to July

Photo by Patrick Jones. Under the umbrella. 23 June 2020.

As the calendar turns to July, we're in this weird place where things are starting to open up here in Northern Virginia, but in other states the pace of COVID-19 continues to increase. Americans are on the travel ban list to Europe, and I'm still on no international travel through the end of September (and likely end of October or through the remainder of 2020). So, we're working from home and summer school starts up again for the kids next week. I'm thinking ahead to potential travel, but not too far ahead as nothing is really confirmed.

For now we're looking forward to the long weekend. This afternoon I picked up two racks of baby back ribs from our local butcher and am planning for ribs & corn on the cob for the weekend. The photo above is likely to be my view, as I wrap up a book (Ann Mah's The Lost Vintage), and possibly start another.