In AKRON the NIGHTS are very dark. Paul said that is the biggest difference from living in Chicago or New York. "THE SKY IS BRIGHTER than the landscape at night." Ane he's right -- apartment buildings and the blocks near the Hancock in Chicago were always lit up. Light was in the air all the time.

Here its kind of primitive, sedating, natural. Look at the clouds with a bit of moon light, then at the moon through the branches (from my bedroom window).

We were standing outside tonight checking the door for halloween. The distant twitter of birds, they are flying south (I had forgotton this was something you could see and hear in the early fall). They Filled the sky -- and will fill the lawn in the morning. (same window as the cloud shots).

We have a fireplace, I have never had one. We had the chimney sweep in, although mechanized he had the top hat. where is that maid mary poppins?

Then trees, in the yard, our yard. Birds, squirrels, leaves. Like a park.