2019 Earth Day +1

+1 because the eyes wouldn't stay open and the sofa was so comfy.  Hazards of not leaving the office until well after 9, attempting to eat late dinner quickly in hopes of keeping to a modified fasting plan, then catching up with the news of the day.  There is just not so much time left over, and the body fails.  Well intended blogging attempts do not get completed, until the next day....

So, for Earth Day, a piece that appeared in the New York Times on a lovely sounding itinerary to the Netherlands to see bulb farms - how dreamy it would be to go with Mama Bird one day.

Not in the Netherlands.  From the Hicks aisles during their garden show some weeks back on Long Island.

The day itself was actually abundant with work extras - another candidate town hall, this time with Julian Castro.  Intelligent, young and earnest, progressive.  The sound bite from his presentation was his plan to implement a "21st century Marshall Plan" with respect to Central America in an effort to solve the immigration spike.  Bold, but likely will never sell, and fraught with difficulties.  The Marshall plan was implemented with respect to defeated adversaries, after all.

Photo from Wikipedia.

Then late in the workday, a gathering of the T&E department, a "party," if you will - ha! - to listen to oral arguments in the Kaestner case, the first trusts and estates case to come before the Supreme Court in something like 47 years.  Interesting.  The justices clearly don't all get the ins and outs of trusts (an affirmation that if one specializes, one can come to develop a body of knowledge somewhat deeper than a Supreme Court justice), but they are sharp and quite with it.  Thomas was silent, as usual.