Evening Glow

It was a particularly crisp and clear afternoon in Los Angeles today. Usually one has to wait for some rain to come through to clear things up this much. But that hasn’t happened properly for sometime. Anyway it was great to be able to see all the way down to Long Beach where the tiny forms of the cranes down at the port were clearly visible, or all the way out over the ocean seeing it sparkle in the low late afternoon sunlight.

It might seem that I’m making a big deal out of something rather mundane but I would respectfully disagree. The fact is, Summertime here, and indeed well into the mid Fall, has increasingly (in the last few years and more) become a relentless pattern of dryness, wildfire smoke, heat, and essentially zero rain, so this sort of cool(er), clear weather is especially welcome when it arrives. It should be marked when it does.

This isn’t to say that there haven’t been other kinds of pleasure to be had from the weather recently. There have been some lovely misty days as well – in fact I think they have been the best markets of the transition from the summer/fall heat dryness to what I hope we will be seeing more of for some months.

-cvj