Thursday. Left a little before ten. Blacksmith. Warm again, but with more of a breeze, out of the east. Very thin white clouds to the east, insufficient to do anything about the sun. Grass cutting season everywhere. Young swans with their elders at several points. Blauwkapel, Ruigenhoek, to Westbroek. Tienhoven, Scheendijk, Bloklaan to Loosdrecht. People out, but given the weather and the time of year it wasn't bad. 28 degrees on the way to Nieuw Loosdrecht. Past the airfield and on the trails through the fields toward Groenekan. Newspaper from Van der Neut. By the trail underneath the freeway, the blackberry bushes seemed thoroughly picked over. In the paper reports on the on-line meeting yesterday previewing the Alaska summit. A cease fire would be nice, but without indications (there are none) that Moscow has given up on the goals behind its war, it won't mean too much and it will not last very long. The president is going to find out, perhaps now in earnest, that his envisioned partner in the Kremlin could not care less about stopping the killing. It is somewhat of a question what he'll do next, but I would truly be surprised if a reaction centered around confronting Moscow.
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