THE CALM THAT TRUMPS THE STORM. Hurricane Katrina left a real mess in the Mississippi Delta and Gulf Coast points east. Cold Spring Shops will be monitoring blogospheric fundraising projects for relief and recommending some for your consideration.

A former Category 5 hurricane, however, is no match for the Lake Michigan high. There has been a high near Chicago most of the summer that has made for fine weather (unless you're a farmer hoping for some rain) and lousy sailing conditions, and that high has shouldered tropical depression Katrina, now just another continental low, off toward Buffalo and the Maritimes .