As foreign embassies and consulates report missing people, the supposed death toll rises. It's fortunate that terror struck as early as it did; the true NYC rush hour is really a bit later, especially on what was the first day of school for so many children. There will be more missing added to the list, it's safe to predict, because the City has offered shelter to so many lonely people totally estranged from their families elsewhere. Some of these families will eventually seek out their missing, but there will always be the true solitaries. The real number of lives lost will probably never been known. How welcome are signs of waning summer (lycoris right now, and renewed blooms from the morning glories as well as the cypress vine now attracting the hummingbirds, with thunbergia yet to arrive) and the spring to come (muscari).