#the strait

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

The Morning Drive

Way back when I worked at my first job out of college and still lived with my grandparents, my grandmother wasn't yet retired and she used to drive me to work on her way to hers. Now, she really, really doesn't like the dark and hated especially in the winter when it was dark when we woke up and dark when work was finished. So I made a habit in the morning of pointing out all the sky phenomena that signalled the coming dawn.

Unfortunately, being in a hurry, we didn't often get a chance to stop for photos. But a couple times we did. :)

All photos mine. Two of the misty photos edited for colour, contrast, and cleanup.

[sablehorses]

Recorded Live @ Les Abattoirs SMAC http://www.sablehorses.com © sable horses

[spaceexp]

The Strait of Gibraltar, seen from the International Space Station Source: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (flickr)

[wintering]

Detroit preoccupies Windsor. Windsorites go to the river and watch the lake freighters float by in front of Detroit. Detroit newspapers are read. The local ginger ale, Vernors, is consumed. The 72-storey Marriott Hotel in the middle of the Renaissance Center, a 1977 collection of skyscrapers meant to rejuvenate a declining downtown Detroit, helps Windsorites know which way is north. Meteorologists on Detroit TV channels come into everybody’s home and teach Fahrenheit so well that we will forever be converting Celsius in order to really know what the temperature feels like, as I do even though I’ve been living in fully metric Toronto for thirteen years.