In Henning Mankell’s novels about Swedish policeman Kurt Wallander, Wallander’s father is a painter who paints the same landscape every day. They think the father is suffering from dementia, but I wonder if there isn’t some clarity there, too. I seem to be stuck on Cabezon myself. Sharing photographs of the trusty old volcanic plug …

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I couldn’t take Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton beating up on each other in Brooklyn, and I’ll have to wait for Mike Coleman’s story on Gov. Susana Martinez speaking at the GOP gala in Manhattan, so I went outside this evening to take a look around.