Wednesday, October 26, 2011

From my balcony 10/26/11

  • Out at 6:20am, no moon, lots and lots of stars in view even with all the hotel and street lights.
  • Stray cats everywhere, not mangy but sleek and groomed, prowl the deserted streets and parking lots.  Solid black cat sneaks through the palmettos and gnarly bushes of Hurl Rocks Park and over the wall to drink from my Bluewater Resort pool.  White cat with orange dapples uses the crosswalk to get to 20th Avenue South, and a Myrtle Beach public works truck politely stops to let it cross.
  • Last night I was Sky Wheel watching for the longest time.  I can only see half of the Wheel, the monstrous Landmark hotel at 15th Avenue South covers up the rest, but her carnival colors dancing and shifting like a disco ball kept me captive.  The Sky Wheel is new to Myrtle, but she has quickly become the starring diva of the beach.
  • A straight line of 100ish geese flew straight south over the ocean, morphing the line into a sphere with a tail, then a jagged V before disappearing from sight.
  • I could make out the silhouette of a bundled up solo walker, a man, contemplative, stopping and staring into the lightening sky and then walking on.  His feet never touched the water, even though Mother Ocean was way up on the beach, retreating from high tide.
  • Four pink contrails scream south across the pale blue sky, forming a conga line.
  • Sunbella pinks up the sky behind hazy gray clouds, turning them into ash over lava shooting from a volcano.  She melts away the ashy clouds and pierces the skyline with a laser beam of fierce orange.  The day begins. 

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