Woke to gentle rain this morning. That’s more pleasant on a Saturday morning, but still a good aural experience on a Thursday.

By afternoon, it was partly cloudy and warm, something like a good day in May. I dried off my chair and spent a few minutes on the deck about 3:30, after finishing a particularly intense bit of work.

Cloudy or not, a parade of planes is always headed for O’Hare.

About an hour later, a thunderstorm passed through, but I was already back inside. All in all, a spring day here in the fall.