New York City, August 5, 2015

★★★★ Petals dropped from a helpfully labeled Japanese pagoda tree beside the natural-history museum. More petals lay on a navy Audi A4 wagon up the block. Thin clouds were whitening the east, but the sun through them cast shadows. The cross streets were hot, but still preferable to the runaway office cooling system. Reading a draft on paper out on Fifth Avenue left the eyes so overloaded that, on return to the indoors, not only were the rooms and people green but the windows and scenery magenta. Great drifting afternoon clouds of white and silver-gray were scaled for the multi-framed panorama through the Time Warner Center’s front windows, or for the panorama of the sky itself.