Anodyne
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
 
In Monsoonland

Torrential grey horizontal rain, driving the last leaves from the trees. Unseasonably cold, too, with a huge unstable snowpack on the local peaks, and the North Shore creeks turbid and high.

I keep meaning to drive out to New Westminster and Fraser Cemetery, just like I keep meaning to make a Mount Baker landscape. The weather, however, won't cooperate; day after endless day of overcast, or of piled-up clouds at the eastern edge of the Fraser Valley, hiding the peak from view.

Wanted: slant light, late in the day. Long shadows. A young woman descends from the occasional bus and walks along, turning in by the chainlink fence and crossing the scabby grass...
- posted by cjb @ 11:36 AM


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