Certainly a nice morning with the bright sunshine and temperatures around 42. A bit cool but not bad compared to recent weather. I found that sunshine made it much easier to get going today — and a delightful walk down to the bus stop. 54 degrees later.

A quick clipper front will come through a little before sunset at 7:37 pm and push some clouds in through midnight but I’m thinking more partly cloudy then cloudy. Sunny by tomorrow morning. The 8 pm temperature will be 48 — cool but it’s still only mid-April. Later this week into the weekends will have warmer evenings.

Today in 1960, the United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system. The technology in Transit 1-B, which relied on calculating differences in time, would eventually lead to the modern GPS system, which is essential for modern day life — and ending the age old question — where I am ? People forget that until 5 or so years ago, you couldn’t pull out your cellphone and track your location down to 10 feet, anywhere in the United States.

Happy Birthday to Butch Cassidy, the notorious American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch gang in the American Old West.

We are 180 days out now from Columbus Day, when we usually have peak color for the leaves. Because it’s been cold, the budding has been retarded in Albany but I’m sure with this weekend’s warm weather the budding will speed up. Listening to Kenny Chesney’s Boys of Fall. Summer is an endangered species, it seems to last only a few weeks every year.

I may be the only person who hates when there is no traffic on the 787 going downtown, but it really cuts into my time to blog and take pictures. Bus rider problems. So be it.