November 5: Clear skies

The sky is never this clear and blue in the summer. When it's hot, the atmosphere is a swirling soup of water vapor and heat rising, coming across from other regions, being absorbed by the city and the earth and radiating back into the sky... it makes a haze which is moody and gorgeous when the sun is rising, and it condenses into gorgeous cumulus piles and puffs later in the day. But it never gives me the lightness and joy of a cool, clear autumn or winter day.

The changing leaves overlapping the sky, glowing with the sun behind them... even when it's not a good day in other ways, we still have that. It's amazing.