A Few Pics From a New Vantage

Here's a snapshot through the blinds of the office looking at yesterday's sunset:



January Sunset

Here's an image from today's sunset, a photo of the church building across the street in the fading afternoon light:



In Lovely Light

Settling a Little

The place is mostly settled in. There is still some work around the office to starighten out, a few pieces of artwork to hang, but it's mostly there.

And the weekend weather cooperated. It's cold still--it's January for another 90 minutes. But the sun came out for three straight days. Sandra and I even caught a little bit of the sunsets the past couple of days. It's nice to have the time to share.

A Different Take

I started writing last night, but stopped, didn't save what scraps were there. There's something about the late night, 3 am, orange streetlight sneaking through the blinds. It is its own sense of things, a familiar yet strange world.

Then there is the morning, waiting for the bus to come in the train station, as a regular customer greeted the cashier.

"How do you like the snow this morning?" a woman asked the other woman behind the counter.

I didn't quite catch the reply, but the I did when the first woman added "like freckles."

Interesting.
Indeed.

The End of the Holidays

At the start of this week, my Mom finally took down her Christmas tree. The trees along a little stretch of 111th Street also disappeared this week or some time over the weekend. It's odd how that the stretch alongside the road sticks, even as time has passed and new semester begins.

A string of evergreens lit for the holidays dotted the block-long median which separated the busy throughway of 111th from a short local road allowing access to the houses on the north side of street. In many ways, it was picture-perfect scene, those holiday-lit evergreens with giant boxes wrapped as Christmas presents. Though I never stopped with the camera. Something about the busyness of moving. Something about holding an image in my mind instead.

Those trees, I'll remember. I might even remember to look for them next December, when the season comes with short cloudy days and cold weather and the desire to brighten a sliver of life with festive holiday mood.

Happy New Year

It's been a whirlwind the past several weeks: the end of the semester, preparing to move, a holiday trip, moving, and now unpacking.

But things have been good. Sandra and I survived the move. Besides having to organize stuff, I will have some free time, so I should have chances to catch up with posting over the next few weeks.

I hope everyone is having a good start to the New Year!