Wednesday

Nature, obviously,
hadn’t counted on me showing up

and consequently treated me as
an unexpected and uninvited guest.

-Ivan Turgenev
“Diary of a Superfluous Man”

It’s funny how exasperated the birds at the beach get when I’m trying to take their picture! In their eyes I see their patience quickly failing: almost audible their thoughts:

Of all noxious animals…
the most noxious is the tourist.

-Francis Kilvert
“Selections from the Diary
of the Rev. Francis Kilvert”