And to celebrate 5 years of my daybreak walk at Cove Island Park this week, the curtains opened, and the show went on…. More photos from this morning’s walk: Sunrise here. Twilight here.
Tag: Photography
Walking. 5 years, and counting.
4:30 a.m. yesterday morning.
Forecast called for 90% to 100% cloud cover, and light rain. Again, damn it. Rinse & Repeat.
I stare at the app, irritated.
I pay $50 / year for this smartphone app, and it’s consistently wrong.
Yet, I pay.
And I believe.
And I walk.
Oh, Lord. Let it be wrong again today.
And light rain it did; Rain enough to keep the pesky humans at home.
But it let up.
And there I am. Alone. Standing on the break wall, with the fog lifting.
I snap the shot. I stare at the LCD screen, and I don’t see what I see in front of me.
The HuMan tool can’t capture it.
Beautiful can’t describe it. Ethereal.
Painter Giorgio Morandi: “One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it’s necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see...Nothing, or almost nothing in this world is truly new, what’s important is the new, different perspective an artist chooses to look at the world.”
It’s been 1,828 consecutive (almost) days on this Cove Island Park walk. Like in a row.
Yes, it’s the same Cove Island Park track. May 5th makes it the 5 year anniversary of this walk.
And, the Magic Show goes on.
Notes: See other photos from Wednesday morning’s walk here.
TGIF. 5:00 P.M. Bell.
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
Her Birthday!
More on Sawsan here.
And as a lover of Sparrows, this Sawsan is for you.
Sparrow is everywhere and always will be. The birds scatter. Her crying perplexes them. Yet who comes hopping back first, cocking her dun-colored head? Of course, the sparrow. The great avian improvisor. The one who makes her nest in cold chimneys and tailpipes and ruined foundations, the one who has learned to concede the ideal. And for this reason, she is everywhere. Sparrow is everywhere and always will be.
— Amity Gaige, Heartwood: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, April 1, 2025)
Notes:
- DK Photo of Sparrow. April 11, 2025
- NY Times Book Review: A Slow-Burn Thriller Set on the Appalachian Trail
- Washington Post Book Review: “In “Heartwood,’ a lost hiker fights for survival.”
Sunday Morning
Trinity Lutheran Church on Seaside Avenue, Stamford, CT. More early Sunday morning photos of Stamford, City center here. Thank you Cara for the Welcome to Stamford tour of your wonderful city.