I just flipped through some photographs from Colleen Plumb's new book Animals Are Outside Today on the NYT website, paused for a moment, thought I should be doing something else, thought maybe this merited a blog post. The blog post won out, because these are the sort of images of animals that avoid sentimentality and say something, though don't ask me what, about the relationship we have with the Things That Are Outside Today.

In other news, Tomas Transtromer won the Nobel prize.