New York City, October 18, 2012

★★★★ A moving cloud show throughout the day, cumulus formations going steadily uptown. What looked at first glance like a stable drifting mass revealed shaggy edges, pulling and fraying and roiling at a faster slow-motion pace than the main body. The wind was in constant motion below. There were traces of yellow in the honey locusts and at the ends of oak branches, and a wash of red in the maples toward the river — Autumn in New York, arriving on the heat island at the pace of autumn in Virginia Beach.