New York City, December 3, 2014

★ Mist lurked above the buildings and then withdrew, leaving dimness and dampness below. What the chill had lost in intensity it made up in its ability to penetrate. The water returned as a drizzle, verging on scattered rain, and then as full rain. The rain diminished; the cold increased. The newest excesses of Lower Manhattan were neatly chopped off where they reached above the older skyline, into the once-more-lowering gray. By the commute, the rain was entirely gone, and clouds moved surprisingly fast across the low gibbous moon.