Weather Report

Hurricanes have a way of clearing the air. Since Isabel blew though (we only got the edge of her here), the atmosphere has felt cleaner and somehow thinner. I think the storm sucked all the pollutants and humidity out of the New York/New Jersey skies, at least temporarily. She also brought us some beautiful cloud formations, like something dreamed up by an English landscape painter: billowing piles of ephemeral, mashed-potato castles. They blow past quickly, as if in a hurry to get to some utopia over the horizon.