Foggy Day.

8-17-12 VERMONT: Well, we got the rain, another 0.75 inches worth on the night before last. We had dinner that night with Roger, Ann, Melissa and Dick at Ariana’s in Orford, NH.

Lily and her friend José were here overnight at the end of their counseloring tours, I guess that should be Josée. They have now moved on.

We were fogged in this morning. If you looked up, there was blue sky, but everything else was grey and obscured and strange.


Ligularia dentata. This plant is mostly for foliage with large purple leaves that take a mounded shape, but the flower is OK too.

Foggy morning makes the familiar seem exotic.

I saw this chart on Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight Blog, found in the online NYT. The blue line represents Industrial Production over time, and the grey bars are recessions since World War II. Look at the length of the recent recession and the steep and deep drop in Industrial Production, far worse than any of the other recessions, and which has not yet returned to pre-recession levels. Employment can't improve further until Industrial Production does. Obama deserves credit for dealing with this whopper of a recession as well as he has.