This was the crazy sunset sky at our backs last night as we waited for Screen on the Green to begin on the National Mall. We rode our bikes down after work, picnic dinner in tow, grateful that the weather was finally pleasant. The feature was 12 Angry Men, a definite classic that caused the audience to clap at the very end for the (spoiler ahead) NOT GUILTY verdict. Besides the uplifting ending, the best part of the evening was, as always, the HBO dance.
A flying geese sculpture in the Dupont Circle area… I guess this is what the view looks like if you are the goose at the back of the V.
Just part of the massive H-shaped facade of the east wing of the National Gallery of Art , designed by I.M. Pei.
A fire escape somewhere around 14th Street. Shot on film. Anyone ever had to actually use one of these??
The sun rose today at 6:37am and it will set at 5:06pm, giving us exactly 10h 29m of daylight. By December 21st, it will be setting at it’s earliest time during the year – 4:50 in the afternoon/evening! Good reasons to hibernate, coming up.
Early this morning, Matt took me up onto the roof of his current work project, Constitution Square, so that I could shoot some video footage of the DC skyline for my final compositing project this semester. We just missed the beautiful sunrise by about 20 minutes, but I still got some great footage and views of the Capitol, Washington monument, and the NoMA Station Water Tower, pictured above.
Happy Autumnal Equinox! At least, that’s what my calendar marks as today, September 22nd. The foggy, dreary weather outside today somewhat supports that, although I much prefer to think of fall as bright earthy colors and crisp breezes, Oktoberfest brews, tailgating, and, of course, candy corn. Either way, summer is technically over, and the sun will cross the equator today, from north to south, leaving us with exactly 12 hours of lightness and 12 hours of darkness. That means that by tomorrow, the nights will start becoming longer than the days. I’ve certainly noticed it happening already as I’ve been getting up around 6am, when Bowser first starts “barking” to go outside, and it’s still pitch black.
So today’s photo, we’ve posted about before , although I thought this version definitely says “goodbye summer” with the sun, and “hello fall” with the leaf. Time to start brainstorming Halloween costumes!
It’s not every day (or in fact, ever) that I receive reader requests, but in my inbox yesterday:
[Dear Lori] … i want to have a guest picture. i “think” i took a really cool picture of a cloud with my phone. where should i send it to to see if it is worthy of being on juxta?
Since I’m always happy to see cool photos, and cool photos only, from our reader-base, I accepted.
The next email arrived with photo, and accompanying caption/side-story :
i just sent the picture. it is of a fast moving, bright cloud having a
near collision with a slow moving dark one. it was coo-coo. i was sitting
out on my parents deck drinking some natty boh and listening to john mayer
with the real jj (my parents are in france for a couple weeks) when i
looked up and that’s what i saw. it was right after a down pour that i
thought was going to ruin my evening of anti-social drinking. but instead
God came through by stopping the rain on my cooler and putting on a fabulous lightning show.
and that’s that. do you think i’ll make the cut? –JJ @ freethetacos.org
What say you, readers?
Sun, clouds, and shingled glass.
As seen in NoMa… a whole mess of wires between New York Avenue and Union Station.