New York City, April 20, 2017

★★ Fairly even clouds filled the sky, and fairly even water filmed the pavement of the schoolyard. What rain was falling could be ignored for minutes on end, if not all the minutes of the wait for school to begin. The bulk-planted daffodils had shriveled where they stood. When it seemed that the clouds had secured the day, the sun suddenly faded in, and for a while the sky even had blue in it. The gray returned though, and with it came a stifling and pervasive dampness, heavier by the hour.