A Dark and Stormy Night

Overnight we had wind and rain, with more cold wind today, so the beach is deserted.

I don't arrive until 6:10 pm, fifteen minutes after sunset. Stiff wind points each palm's fronds directly east.

There are no footprints anywhere, just wide stretches of pristine rippled sand.

Overhead the growing moon pulls the ocean to high tide and blots out Orion.

Venus stands lower in the western sky each evening.

I jog south to Venice in the darkness and return, thinking This is the last day it will be so dark at 7 pm.

What a relief that daylight savings time will start.