Here’s the list of animals we saw in Priest Lake this year:

• Skunk
• Bat
• Chipmunk
• Bunny
• Lake Trout
• Deer
• Otter
• Bald eagle
• Osprey
• Pups
• Crow
• Ducks
• Geese
• Hummingbird
• Sparrow
• Horse

It’s weird to have Castle in the Sky reviewed in Pitchfork. As someone who was interested in music and came of age in the mid-to-late aughts, it was so influential on my tastes and my aspirations, not always for the better. I’m not sure what it means to be in Pitchfork now, but a small perhaps vain side of me felt validated by it – though that was fleeting. Here’s to keeping your head down and making good work.

Kokoroko wrote a nice blurb on Castle in the Sky for the German publication, Music Expresse.

On a beach in the Yucatan, I quietly watched as Pelicans fished. Floating serenely in the waves, they suddenly took off, seemingly abandoning their prey, only to loop back around, ride an updraft into the sky, and nose dive into the water.

Today I walked to the Alley Pond Giant: A 350-400 year old Tulip Tree which is supposedly “the oldest living organism in New York City.”

Nestled on a steep slope near the intersection of the Long Island and Cross Island Expressways, the tree has survived because the land it sprouted from was of no use to the city that sprawled around it.