Tomorrow night we fly to Seattle for a couple weeks. It will be like flying to stay in the same place, for New York in July this year has been Seattle in July. Each day dawns cool and clear, warms to the high 70's or no more than the low 80's, with huge clear blue skies speckled with billowed clouds of the sort that make kids say, "There's an elephant, and that's a lion, and that's a...", and -- the best gift of all -- practically no humidity. Central Park is filled, the subways don't smell, even the street scenes seem to move more slower, as if everyone in them cannot quite believe this gift and wants to revel in it. I keep expecting it to end and halfway through the month, it hasn't yet.
Here's a photo from the web of the Stonehenge effect in NYC. Twice a year, in the periods May 28-30 and July 11-13, the sun sets exactly in the middle of the E-W numbered streets along the city's grid. As it gets more widely known each year, it's becoming yet another visitors' attraction.
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