On the proper hour on Friday morning in Washington, the solar and the moon appeared to affix in depicting the day as one poised at factors of division: on our calendar, amongst our seasons, in our climate.
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Friday was day of in-betweens, in sky, air and seasons
Within the west, the moon, sinking towards the horizon, nonetheless rode excessive on what appeared a solar-lunar axis that stretched throughout a vivid blue morning sky.
Formally, the moon had already reached its full part on Wednesday. However it was full sufficient Friday morning, and silvery and funky.
Our official excessive temperature was 50 levels. In fact, zero and 100 don’t signify the poles of the Fahrenheit temperature scale. Nonetheless, it may be argued that fifty is a type of temperature midpoint.
Above 50 lie the nice and cozy and actually scorching readings. The cool ones and the actually chilly ones lie beneath.
In Washington, Friday could have been a 50-50 type of day. It was not winter, though we had been solely a dozen days from the Dec. 21 solstice. If it was fall, it appeared a cool and late fall day.
The truth is, 50 levels is the common excessive for Washington on Dec. 9. It might be a studying suggestive of a date on the meteorological cusp between fall and winter.
Within the sunshine, you may stroll outside, swinging arms. However virtually unconsciously, it appeared, arms would search and discover consolation in pockets.
Within the meantime, numerous autumn leaves have fallen. A lot vivid autumn coloration has pale or vanished. Nonetheless, it was not troublesome to seek out an oak that had apparently misplaced not a single purple leaf.
Clothed in so many purple shades of autumn, largely darkish ones, this oak appeared to signify the persistence of autumn. However it was adjoining to a tree with out leaves; its naked branches stretched in each route, and appeared an emblem of winter’s onset.