Category Archives: weather

Snow Day In New York

January 18, 2024 – 5:37 pm

Winter used to be the season of cold. In 1978 a blizzard dropped three feet of snow on the Northeast. The suburbs were cut off from the cities by ten-foot drifts on the highways. I lived in the East Village. At night I clomped through the yellowing slush to CBGBs. Army boots and a leather […]

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Fort Greene Obsevatory – Autumn 2015

November 10, 2023 – 10:25 am

Saturday morning I took this photo from the top floor of the Fort Greene Observatory. The sunrise was gray and the Mamas and Papas’ CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ rang in my ears. I was 2900 miles from the West Coast and rain sloshed on the sidewalk. I went to work in wet gear. The streets of Manhattan […]

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Wet Autumn Rain

October 27, 2023 – 10:41 am

A soft Autumn rain Then harder Raindrops bouncing off the sidewalk Of Myrtle Avenue Shutting my eyes I listen To the rain on the street The sizzle of car tires on the wet Engines acceleration on a Friday afternoon Listen harder To passersby. “Her bottom is bigger than my umbrella.” Laughter I open my eyes. […]

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Day Five Forty Days of Rain

October 2, 2023 – 4:45 pm

In Genesis 7:4 Yahweh said four thousand years ago, “For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.? In early September the Eastern Seaboard had been torched by a heat […]

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DA AUTUMN LEAVES by Peter Nolan Smith

September 22, 2023 – 6:12 pm

Written October 2010 Back in the 60s my family home on the South Shore bordered on a small woods and every October the trees beyond the old stone wall turned brilliant reds, yellows, and oranges. The glorious explosion of color lasted several weeks, then the colding wind ripped the weaker leaves from the branches and […]

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