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The light has changed, grown more crystalline and Autumn-bright.  This morning is cool, wet...

I'm sipping my second cup and getting ready for work.  The beach seems like a sweet and hazy interlude that took place ages ago.  Still, it was great to get back to the Outer Banks after so many years.  I'll put some photos up on my Flickr account, soon.  And will continue the writing in my notebook (that I started on the beach).

Right now, though, it's time for more coffee.  And a hot shower -- to wash away the cobwebs...

The last month was a blur; the next nine days will be a grind.  August, already -- and I should be rushing toward bed...

I've been lax here on The Allurium, and I'm going to try and be better.  Work has been busy (and getting busier still).  I'm there the next nine days straight -- then it's vacation time!  After too many years, me, Amy and my family are getting back to the Outer Banks on August 9th.  I can't wait.  I'd stay up and write more about it but I have to get up at 4:30 AM tomorrow.

So I'll just say, Hello August.  And hurry to dreamland.

For now.

Ah.  Time...

...I'm on a bit of a Cormac McCarthy trip, presently.  I've just finished watching, No Country for Old Men and am currently reading, The Road.  Harsh and clear stuff, all around.   Good, though.

In the middle of a three day weekend, with a beer buzz and some July heat sinking in.  The computer screen is a pale and quiet window.  The fireworks on the 4th were pretty.  It was a blessing to be able to watch them with my Mom and Dad, Joel, Ellen, Finn and Amy.  Summer seems to have gotten ahead of me, though; how can June be gone already?

I bought myself a silver pendant.  It is formed from a mold taken from a 16th century wax seal -- people used to use them to seal letters and such.  This one has an image of an hourglass, with wings.  Above the hourglass is the phrase, Carpe Diem.   I keep trying to do that, but time...

Time flies.

Hello July...
 

The slip from bright to shaded (and the amount of coffee thrumming through my veins) gives the day a dynamic.  A plucked string: vibrating.  Sound pouring out and up into the variable sky.  June one and I'm off and whirling through the hours.  Housekeeping, looking at flowers, sweating lightly in the warming air.  Such a treasure.

Hello, June.

Second day off after a rough couple of weeks.  The sky today is not as bright but the hours are still spread out like flowers, opening toward Summer.  I washed and waxed my car, went to a picnic at Joel's and am going to another with Amy, at her Mom's.  It is nice to be out.  It's nice to be off.  Remembering all the things I am grateful for...

Here's to nice slow hours, and to a very happy Memorial Day.