The weather made a sudden changs about two weeks ago. Daytime high temperatures went from the high 90's to the mid-80's. The quality of light changed dramatically as well. I had noticed that the sunlight was much kinder on the eyes, and even made everything look as if you were viewing a professional photograph.
Fall's light has always been known for a special quality. And it didn't surprise me at all one day last week when I saw three different small groups around Uptown, all carrying cameras. They were out, obviously on assignment from a teacher, taking pictures of each other against backgrounds of brick, peeling paint, and back alleys.
I toyed with urging them to get pictures of the more grand doorways or the columns of the courthouse, but with the speed of our alleyway projects, they should get that gritty urban feel now. Some of the alley's may be years away from landscaping or paving, but I do believe they will all have a clean and cared-for look in the next 12 months.
Over the weekend I met some folks from Belmont at Pleasant City. One said she'd just spoken with her daughter in New York and had asked what she was going to do in the big city tonight. After a bored "I don't know" that sounded like nothing at all, The mother laughed and said with glee, "Well I'm going out to eat some great pizza and listen to a wild band named Jimmy Rehab in Uptown Shelby. I'll be out past midnight, but call if you get bored!"
You know I love hearing things like that. Excitement is where you make it. Just like alley ways that look big city can be found in our own backyard, and high energy rock and roll doesn't need a big arena or converted factory on the edge of Uptown Charlotte either.
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