People-watching

On the bus: a woman with arms so heavily freckled my initial impression was that she was wearing a marled long-sleeved sweater. (Then I thought, "No one wears a long-sleeved sweater when it's 85 degrees," and my brain reassembled the visual information. And then I thought, "Damn, she has a lot of freckles." Almost all freckles—the pale redhead kind—with occasional flecks of paler skin showing between them. I hope she uses sunscreen and gets regular skin cancer checks.)