tax day sundries

having sent in the 1040 a couple of days ago, i spent today on the elkmont project before setting up a new audio system this evening --- sound bar and subwoofer, and whoa howdy they rock --- might not need a hearing aid after all if i don't mind the neighbors beating on the walls 

the dog and i keep up with the few specimen trees left around midtown --- we're gonna lose the giant red oak on eleventh street any day now, but what's left of the equally giant cottonwood in front of the academy of medicine, which has lost half its canopy and is certainly on its last legs, has at least leafed out again this year --- 

meanwhile on eighth and w. p'tree, it's all coming out of the ground ---