at the risk of sounding dramatic, you always know it’s coming.
evening comes sooner, you take longer to dress, the a.c. becomes more and more optional.
i used to feel an especially profound sadness at the transition from summer to fall because i’ve gained this just… rabid love for the hottest months. one that i haven’t been able to shake yet.
but while i still do only feel like more of a human when the clock ticks, um, april… i have mellowed my stance a wee bit lately. the baggage of winter depression was a bit too much or something.
i dunno… snow can be pretty sometimes, i guess. it’s nice to be curled up and cozy with a book and not one goddamn reason to leave your place, i guess. you get to move a little slower, things become quieter for a bit.
but that transition… that time around, say, october to november… that can be harsh. or… well, not “harsh”. but a little wistful or something. your pal is going away for five months, and that’s just how it is.
so, burying the lede harder than a recipe on the internet that spends five paragraphs talking about the memories of “nonna”, we get here… or should i say there, to october of 2024. a random walk down to tompkins, sipping a random iced coffee, and randomly running into whatever the heck was happening that day.
it’s brooklyn. we tend to have block parties out of the blue.
and that being the case i can’t really tell you the reason WHY this thing existed – why tompkins ave suddenly had street vendors and music and such – but just that i was happy it existed. the days were beginning to feel a little cooler, and while i didn’t have that same feeling of dread that i used to have when summer was going on vacation… i was still glad to see people just “out”.
i guess you just tag everything as “the last really nice day of the year” around that time. at least up here; i don’t know where you’re reading this.
so, i figured that as long as i had my camera with me, then: boom. get a few pics of folks out prancing around before everybody went into hibernation.
which was fun. and after that i took a nap. a really, really long nap.