Rotorglow

hurricane watch, Chatham, MA
Originally uploaded by rotorglow at 6 Sep '08, 7.28pm EDT PST.

Two years ago this weekend, I was on the Cape during another hurricane watch.

One of the things I like most about summer is the muggy, quiet nights when it's late and even in the city the crickets are chirping. There's something strangely calming about the hazy, orange moon crescent, and how it hangs low and waxing, rising later and later (or staying lower and lower at a given time each night, sidereal and precession effects being what they are), getting more and more unfamiliar, because, really, who's up at 3am on a summer night when the moon is low?, reminding you always of how things wind down.

Giant Cadillac, heavily processed
Originally uploaded by rotorglow at 27 Sep '10, 7.01pm EDT PST.

I'm waiting for the Phillies to clinch. In the meantime, here's a Cadillac.