In the middle of a bitter winter, the sun came out and melted the snow, evaporating it to a fine mist which then hung icily in the chill air, wizarding the ambient light of the streetlamps into an ethereal glow.
I ran outside in my pajama top and winter jacket, wandering around with a camera in one hand and hitching up my gravitationally inclined house pants with the other.
It’s been a week of 16-20 hours days for everyone in the team (more than a week for many), so I have been permanently installed on the sofa with the laptop, getting things done.
The cats like my new daytime accessibility:
At least he’s stopped trying to wash my mouse hand.
This is an autumnal leaf:
The new camera is so, so beautiful.
Ye new camera arrived on my desk this morning. I don’t really have time to spend with it right now, but I did manage to fool around with it while picking up lunch:
(accidentally deleted this during maintenance, reposting)
I stood under the narrow lintel of the office door, waiting to see if the rain would let up a bit… This morning’s forecast was “a chance of light rain”, so I left my lovely new umbrella at home. The outcome? Trapped in the office while streets flooded over the sidewalks, underpasses so deep in water that cars were wading through water over their axles if they made it at all.
While I waited I watched; there was a lake in the road from the yellow line to just above the level of the sidewalk, and I was immoderately amused by watching the pedestrians leap for cover every time a speeding car sent a tsunami up over the pavement.
