Showing posts with label first day of Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first day of Fall. Show all posts

22 September 2018

The Heights Of Fall

Today is the first day of Fall.  And it feels like it, in a pleasant way:  Billowy but thin clouds waft over cool breezes.

A few hundred kilometers north of here, the leaves have begun to change color. Here, though, they're still green.  So if we want Fall colors, we must look elsewhere:




People who don't know the area don't associate these houses with Harlem.  But they line Convent Avenue, a street that bisects the City College campus in a part of Harlem known as Hamilton Heights.  




I was all smiles on my bike, and everyone and everything--including the stones of these houses--seemed to smile back.