The last hot day

Of course today is definitely not the last hot day. Here in the midatlantic, it will be many weeks before we see the last hot day. But today is the last hot day for awhile.

There's a gusty wind blowing around, the cloud people are gathering. The wind has a hint of coolness, a hint of dryness within it. When the wind stops, it's hot and humid again. I find this kind of crazy disparity very exciting. It's a signal that the stagnation of late summer is being stirred, rattled and rolled and can not last forever.

The air has been a solid brick of dampness. But all that stuckness and heaviness is about to change! Oh yeah. Change of any kind brings chaos, something that puts some people on their last nerve. At Eastern Market, babies are crying, kids are pitching fits, parents snarling. I also heard shouting from car windows and lots of horn honking, something that is actually kind of unusual on Capitol Hill.

Everyone feels the incoming weather and the change that follows. Some are unnerved, I am giddy.

Tonight the low temperature will be in the 60s. We haven't seen that in a long time. For three glorious days, Brother Sun will shine - not too passionately - and at night the air will be cool and dry. Ahhh! I will throw open the windows, air out the hermetically sealed chateau and enjoy the fresh air.

I just realized that because I threw away all my old summer clothes, I no longer have the oversized baggy teeshirts I used to sleep in during the winter. Time to shop for some serious flannel jammies! How exciting.

I was taking pics of people on the street last night, zooming in to capture as many people as possible. I love what happened when this car drove by just as I pressed the shutter. Very cool.