Muddy river

Swirls as the muddy Rio Grande passed through Albuquerque this morning: (Much electronic manipulation of the image to bring out those colors. It was pretty, but not quite that pretty.)

“Sir: You have made me unhappy”

From a letter to Franz Kafka: Sir, You have made me unhappy. I bought your ‘Metamorphosis’ as a present for my cousin, but she doesn’t know what to make of the story. As quoted in the Economist’s review of Kafka: The Years of Insight.