Author: Live & Learn
Saturday Morning
DK @ Daybreak. 6:32 to 6:46 am, January 8, 2022. 19° F (-7 C), feels like 7° F (-14 C). Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
T.G.I.F.
Snow had started falling from the Illinois sky, white crystallizations of water as pure as he felt… His thoughts had slowed to a happy medium, no slower than that, not yet. He stood for a moment on the sidewalk, amid the melting snowflakes, and wished the world could just stand still.
— Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 5, 2021)
Photos: DK @ Daybreak. 6:15 to 6:435 am, January 7, 2022. 28° F, feels like 17° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (More pictures from this morning here.)
Lightly Child, Lightly
Twilight can gift us some of the most spectacular atmospheric displays, a riot of shifting colours that punctuate the end of a day, or announce the arrival of a new morning.
The palate and quality of shadowless light has inspired artists, composers and authors from time immemorial and can induce feelings of awe, but also serenity.
These dazzling displays are brought to us thanks to the conjunction of the Earth’s orbital and atmospheric characteristics.
Twilight is the time, at the end of a day, between the sun setting below the local horizon and before the beginning of the night.
It is also the time between the end of the night and the sun rising above the local horizon, that marks the beginning of a new day.
From a meteorological perspective, twilight is further subdivided into three categories: Civil twilight, Nautical twilight and Astronomical twilight. These are based on how far the sun is beneath the horizon, with light and colour draining from the skies as night approaches… (Read on…)
— Chris Fawkes, from “Did you know there are three kinds of twilight? (BBC.co.)
Notes:
- Quote: Thank you The Hammock Papers
- Photo: DK @ Daybreak. 7:22 a.m. Thursday, January 6, 2021. 36° F (2C), feels like 29F (-2C). Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
Notes:
- BBC.com (12/9/21): Saudi camel beauty pageant cracks down on cosmetic enhancements. Judges used “advanced” technology to uncover tampering with contestants in the pageant. More than 40 camels have been disqualified from Saudi Arabia’s beauty pageant for receiving Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements. (Thank you Daniel @Alive_nWell for sharing)
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again.