It is 8:28 a.m. but these photos were taken earlier this morning. It is now 56˚ and expected to rise to 64˚. Details for the next ten days here.
Today’s block: Horace, Virgil, Cypress and Lilac streets, between 25th and 26th.
“Mirror world. The plugs on appliances are huge, triple pronged, for a species of current that only powers electric chairs, in America. Cars are reversed, left to right, inside; telephone handsets have a different weight, a different balance; the covers of paperbacks look like Australian money.”
Cayce Pollard, Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
Have you ever played “spot the difference”? If you moved to the United States from another western country, you’ll find yourself playing it all day. We could have the same brands, cars, traditions, clothes… but there’s always something that looks misplaced, different somehow.
And one of those differences will stick out. You can notice it before moving here, on the tv shows, in the books, in the movies. You people know your cardinal points – you walk on the north side of the street, you take roads pointing east and west, you built your towns and houses facing sunset, or sunrise. We don’t have such a thing – on average we build our houses facing streets, and the streets have been built to link a church with another church – or a church with Rome – no sun is involved.
So we don’t know the magic of dawn and dusk mirroring in the windows of an entire city. This morning should have been about Halloween, but the leftovers where not enough, so it’s about glares, and light ricocheting, and all the magic of lights that you take for granted.
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A magic time in a magic place