Hello and Happy Sunday. I can't tell you how happy I am to have rejoined the workforce and be waking up early each morning. I have a habit of posting sunset dairies around here but I'm working everyday until 10 p.m. and missed every single one last week.
I'm adapting nicely and walking out my door just before sunrise each morning I managed to capture the start of each day. Being back to work is very new to me and I'll be springing out of bed in the morning. Perhaps the sunshine that improved my previous week will add a smile to your Monday Morning.
This is an odd week in review for a political community but from the current events dribs and drabs I've managed to pick up, could be just what the doctor ordered. You gotta love that U.S. Senate, don't ya?
With these long days I'm a bit information deprived but got a quick week in in review. Glen Beck took first place on the best seller list, nonfiction? Zombieland wins the weekend box office, perfect. The Black Eyed Peas are still on top with I Got a Feeling and bank failures are up to 98 for the year.
But there's always sunshine.
The setting is different from my Hudson River sunsets. Looking east from my kitchen window is Van Cortlandt Park, where I often take my camera to capture a little urban nature. After the 1,146 acres of nature is lower Westchester county, the north central and eastern Bronx. The two giant buildings in the photos are in New Rochelle. Then the seemingly small body of water is the Long Island Sound and the far off glacial moraine is Long Island.
Going back a little more that a week, my first day back to work, Monday September 21th that sort of felt like my first sunrise.
And here's a T.G.I.F. sunrise from last week.
I worked Saturday too, my first time and a half day in over a year. I don't mean to sound like a greedy bastard but with the amount of time I've been out of work, time and a half makes everything seem brighter.
On Sunday I forgot to unset the clock and went out to the kitchen for coffee and sunrise. There was no sun on Sunday and even though I was only back to work for six days I was grousing "Six perfect days in a dark theater and look at this crappy day when I'm off." All I had to complain to was a hot water bottle, a foot bath and a heating pad but the New York Jets lifted my spirits. With the clouds lifting for the evening, it sure felt good being home for a sunset.
In the morning the sky had not completely cleared and Monday's sunrise was a great way to start a long workweek, a little moody.
Tuesday's sun burned in nicely.
They call it Humpday right? On Wednesday, the last day of September, the sun was obscured by clouds at sunrise.
A walk across the apartment for that feeling I get when I look to the west.
And just before I walked out the door, the sun got over the clouds.
Is this too many sunrises? How about a little early morning October urban art break?
On Thursday, the first of Roctober, Jim Kerr and Shelli Sonstein of Q 104.3 timed Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here perfectly with the sunrise. The false dawn was a mix of pink and yellow and warmed up quickly as I remembered the the good old days of Dave Herman's sunrise songs back when WNEW-FM was where Rock Lived.
Another T.G.I.F sunrise. This Friday I could see a "V" in the morning sky.
Yesterday was a dull and foggy morning. It made going in for a sixth day that much easier and more time and a half!
I did remember to unset the clock this morning and when I did finally make it out to the kitchen there was all sorts of drama going on out there. I thought it looked like the view from an airplane.
To the west I could see it would be a clearing day.
But I stayed in all day waiting for my beloved team the New York Jets to transform themselves back into what I expect of them. I stayed in but I did have one brush with nature. I don't know what could be so appealing to this guy on the twenty-first floor but he's not getting in.
Ha and you thought I was all about sunsets. Oh but I was home for tonight's sunset.
And the eastern sunset view on what will probably be the last time I see Van Courtlandt Park in green until 2010.
Well that's about it. I hope everyone here has a great week and I'll see you again when I'm unemployed, in about two weeks.
Have a good night.