It’s Monday morning and the weather widget is predicting a hot, humid, rainy week. These are things that would normally leave me a little grim. But as I walked to my office I noticed that Uniqlo has their mannequins dressed in scarves and long-sleeved grays and blacks - this is the fall equivalent of seeing the first robin of spring, and it always cheers me up immediately. Even peanut butter magnet man seemed happier than usual - he was singing loudly and enthusiastically.

On Friday I finally got around to contributing to The Items We Carry on Flickr, which I’ve spent hours enjoying over the past few days. The What’s In Your Bag? pool is also well worth poking through.