Noticing, Day 27: goodness. mercy.

Today it's hay bales standing in calm ranks on their new-mown fields. It's dogs frolicking in pairs in the ditches of the highways: a pair of tiny terriers, a pair of hounds, and -- most improbably -- a pair of Shih Tzus. The weather, apparently, brings out the joyous dogginess of all dogs. It's the breeze…