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What beauty this is.
The combination of freelance work and weekly class schedules means there's usually at least one afternoon where I have absolutely no obligations on my time. Not even my part-time telecommuting job, as long as I've finished all the current outstanding tasks. Sometimes it's three days, sometimes just an afternoon.
Today didn't quite count, since I had a dentist's appointment and did some errands on the side. But it counted enough, because I was able to sit in a coffee shop and look out the window for a while, and I was able to stop and look at the equinox sky. Summer ended nearly three weeks ago when the first pumpkins showed up at the market. It ended last Saturday, when the first leaves began blowing down the street. And it ended today, with the equinox. Autumn begins very slowly, and gently, in incremental stages that are easy to track if you pay attention. One of those things is a very sharp sky that doesn't happen much at this latitude. The sky is rarely empty of clouds, and the sunlight isn't often as intense as it needs to be, but when both of those things happen - as they did today - then it becomes one of the brightest, sharpest blue skies that New York City is ever capable of having. I saw it a while ago at the New York Botanical Garden, and I saw it today on the building's roof.
Nobody ever tells you about missing the sky. I guess nobody thinks of that.
Today didn't quite count, since I had a dentist's appointment and did some errands on the side. But it counted enough, because I was able to sit in a coffee shop and look out the window for a while, and I was able to stop and look at the equinox sky. Summer ended nearly three weeks ago when the first pumpkins showed up at the market. It ended last Saturday, when the first leaves began blowing down the street. And it ended today, with the equinox. Autumn begins very slowly, and gently, in incremental stages that are easy to track if you pay attention. One of those things is a very sharp sky that doesn't happen much at this latitude. The sky is rarely empty of clouds, and the sunlight isn't often as intense as it needs to be, but when both of those things happen - as they did today - then it becomes one of the brightest, sharpest blue skies that New York City is ever capable of having. I saw it a while ago at the New York Botanical Garden, and I saw it today on the building's roof.
Nobody ever tells you about missing the sky. I guess nobody thinks of that.