During the past two days, our weather has been a spectrum of gray, from fog to mist to drizzle to showers to rain--and back again.
Yes, I rode to work. But that was the extent of my cycling. Even though we're well into May, the temperatures--and, it seems, the light--feel more like early spring. So it's been just warm enough that some people, like me, want to experience it, or simply be outside for a little while. But it's been chilly enough that some seek shelter from it.
Some who seek shelter look for--or build--castles in the air:
The gothic-looking building with the blurred top in the middle of the photo is the Woolworth Building, one of the first skyscrapers built here. I've never been to the top floors, but I've seen a fog-enshrouded skyline from the top of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. It's sort of like rising from a dream without waking from it.
As for those who remain outside in the misty chill: They do not always stand tall. They don't have to; they just stand. Sometimes it's hard not to notice them.
For them, the season is beginning in a spectrum they will help to complete.
