Yesterday was Labor Day, the sort of unofficial end of summer and the beginning of school and back to work and the end of summer beach shares and so on.
We were in the city expecting thunderstorms. In fact, my iphone woke me up from a pleasant nap to warn of flash floods. So I went up to the roof to look for storm clouds. (In the morning I had paid 99c to add to my collection of Hipsamatic filters....)
So things did look wonderfully dramatic. Look past the Google Building to the Freedom Tower.
Looking up was turbulent and celestial.
I'm playing around with antique tintype effects. Robert thinks these very silly and distracting but I think rather fun since I'm never going to be a real photgrapher. Anyway what bliss it is to have leisure to fiddle and experiment.
Claudia just wrote from Montpellier that the French think working is for chumps. Not to go into a long disquisition, I do think lots of Americans work
way too hard and feel they need to be busy all the time. They make one feel positively immoral if one is not engaged in some improving pursuit. Hate feeling guilty.
Just finished reading "The Warden" by Anthony Trollope. Wonderful moral questions.
At the movies - "Blue Jasmine" Madoff scandal meets "Streetcar". Wonderful stuff.
I took the last picture in September 2012 at Rockaway Beach about a month before Hurricane Sandy
It really does seem to have an odd and ominous feel which is why I kept it.