Capital City Weather: bright blue skies, 40ish, blustery.

Since Bill noted the "fuchsia alert" on his blog, I should tell you that the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has placed plastic saw horse-like things and orange cones so as to block off both the circular drive on the Boulevard and the one off the parking lot. Inside, a guard, stationed a folding table with an Orange Alert sign, did a perfunctory search of my small purse.

Other things of note today: Ellwood Thompson carries ground buffalo meat; a helpful clerk at an office supply store (it’s a sad state of affairs when good service is so odd, it stands out in one’s memory); and more tweaking of the words on a proposed historical highway marker for Sharon Indian School (American Indian Resource Center).