Evanston: light, water, tree tops
Evanston: light, water, tree tops
Light streams into this condo. That is one of the things we like best about it. In the morning in our bedroom, which is at the east end; throughout the day as the sun moves along the south side; and particularly now in late afternoon in the living room at the west end as the sun slips lower.
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I pumped up our bicycle tires yesterday, and just before lunch today--or rather Carol’s lunch, for I have been eating too much and wasn’t hungry, particularly since we are going out to dinner with friends again this evening and tomorrow--we rode along the lake to Northwestern’s campus and back.
Still a cool day for August. No one on the beach, but a few joggers and other cyclists on the path. A moderate north wind created small wavelets that rebounded off the shore near Northwestern’s lagoon. Lake Michigan light blue to turquoise, appearing deceptively tropical.
We have spent the summer living among tree tops.
Francois’s unit is on the second floor of his building, but with steps up to the main entryway is 2 ½ stories above ground, as our third floor condo is actually 3 ½ stories up.
Cambridge is older than Evanston, and the trees taller. As I waited for the water to boil for coffee at Francois’s, I would stand, looking out at the branches of a tree just outside his kitchen window, with bunches of small red/orange berries, and often an exploring squirrel scurrying along a limb.
Cathy’s place is vertical, not horizontal, with a balcony off the third floor master bedroom, to which we carried a shaker of martinis one night last week. On a small dead end street and overlooking an abandoned railway line that has been converted into a bicycle and jogging path, it was very quiet and peaceful up there.
Here I look out on familiar trees, taller across the street, and down on two in front of our building.
Green everywhere for a few more months.
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The photograph is another orphan from the restored journal years. It is of Rio de Janeiro at dawn, taken in January 2002. I expect that I originally just stuck it with an unrelated entry because I like the colors.
Monday, August 31, 2009