Day 189

September 26, 2020. Sunset 6:59 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“Paul’s turn” – NT
(What's happened to Matt?)
Day 189 sheltering in place

Day 188

September 25, 2020. Sunset 7:00 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“The Equilux Man”- NT
Day 188 sheltering in place with Norman and Matt

Equilux—Northern Minnesota

September 25, 2020. Sunset 7:05 PM. Caribou Lake. Marcell, MN.

From my friend who I stayed with on the cross-country trip-- The leaves were green and still attached to the trees when I left there 2 weeks ago!
Thank you, Kathy Roman

EQUILUX HEADS-UP COMING SOON!!

The Equinox has passed however, we who do not live at the Equator have yet to experience a day of equal light and equal darkness. At this latitude, the real day of equal light falls 4 days after the Fall Equinox (and 4 days before in the Spring). So, for those of us in NY and the Bay Area- tomorrow September 25th is the day.

If you would like to find out which day you can experience the actual balance where you live, check out timeanddate.com and enter your location and look for the sunrise and sunset to occur at the same time AM/PM.

Equilux Eve...

September 24, 2020. Sunset 7:02 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“warm up for tomorrow’s equilux”- NT
(Have you noticed? Matt has a nice collection of shoes)
Day 187 sheltering in place.

do you hear what I think I hear?

September 24, 2020. Sunset 6:48 PM. Brooklyn, NY.

The fan is running all the time here to create some version of positive air pressure in my room. It may my imagination, but I thought the bells sounded a bit modified by the fan- the way your voice sounds when you sing in front of a fan. Maybe, maybe not?

Day 186

September 23, 2020. Sunset 7:03 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“Who is that masked man? MATT!” - NT
Day 186 sheltering in place with neighbors.

sun event: lulu & the fall equinox

September 22 and 23 2020 sunset 7:15,
then later 7:44 on the porch
berkeley, ca …
-Wendy Reid

Happy Autumn!

September 22, 2020. Sunset 7:05 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“2 Celebrate the Equinox” - NT.
Are those special equinox shoes???? Very festive, Matt!
Day 185 sheltering in place with neighbors.

Happy Equinox!

September 22, 2020. Sunset 6:55 PM. Crossing the Delaware River between Lambertville, NJ and New Hope, PA. with friends and strangers. Just down the street from where my father has lived for over 35 years. Also - just a few miles north of where Washington crossed the Delaware back in the day.
We enjoyed it so much we walked over and back - twice.

Thank you Iris Alroy for your on-the-ground efforts to let people know about our little celebration.

with 3 good friends

September 21, 2020. Sunset 7:07 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“Garbage night, again. Spent with three good friends” - NT.
Day 184 sheltering in place with neighbors.

Seattle Sunset 9/20 7:11 PM; Sunrise Equinox 6:30/6:57 AM

Thick wildfire smoke descends along the West Coast.

It passes here. 

The great RGB passes. 

Another heavy cloud descends. 

Equinox and the seasonal change, bringing changes.

~ Caterina De Re

Day 183

September 20, 2020. Sunset 7:08 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“Just Matt, me and the bell.” - NT
Day 183 sheltering in place with neighbors.

Day 182

September 19, 2020. Sunset 7:10 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Day 182 sheltering in place with neighbors
- NT

Another Superior Sunset

September 19, 2020. Sunset 7:03 PM. Ironwood, MI.

“Sun is almost down. If you enlarge this, you can see the full sun. The sun looks like two colors tonight.”
- Kathy Roman

Ringing for RBG

September 18, 2020. Sunset 7:11 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“Ringing for RBG” – NT
Day 181

Happy Rosh Hashanah --Shanah Tovah!

September 18, 2020. Sunset 6:59 PM. Brooklyn, NY.

Sun is still glowing off the roof here - as the 15-minute warning siren blares from somewhere deep inside the Hasidic neighborhood across the street. Known as the Shabbat siren, it sounds every Friday night in advance of Shabbat.

91 years- Happy Birthday, Dad

September 16, 2020. Sunset 7:02 PM. Brooklyn, NY.
Hannah and I ringing it down after visiting my father in New Jersey today to celebrate his 91st Birthday! We love you dad.
Thank you to everyone who made this journey possible for me. I am so grateful.

September 16, 2020. Sunset 7:14 PM. San Francisco, CA.
Another usual suspect chimes in. Welcome back, Elisabeth.
Day 179 Sheltering in place

tracking the sunset from coast to coast

September 15, 2020. Sunset 7:03 PM. Brooklyn, NY.
Facing West- down Broadway, towards the East River, Manhattan and the "Freedom Tower".

September 15, 2020. Sunset 7:16 PM. San Francisco, CA.
“The Usual Suspects”- NT
Day 178 sheltering in place

Sunset 7:18 pm in Middletown, CA, on 9/15/2020.
Photo taken at 7:47 pm. -Lynne Piade

Day 177

September 14, 2020. Sunset 7:18 PM. San Francisco, CA.

This is a celebratory moment. Our next-door neighbor is back working on his car again now that it’s possible to see and breathe again outside. Hello to Matt from across the street and thanks, Norman for holding down the fort.
Day 177 sheltering in place

splitting the horizon

September 14, 2020. Sunset 7:05 PM. Brooklyn, NY.

Ringing. Sunset from under the ground (through a very dirty window)

Hannah from Upstairs.

Day 176

September 13, 2020. Sunset 7:19 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Norman said the air is better today.
Day 176 sheltering in place

covid tests available, bags not so much

September 13, 2020. Sunset 7:07 PM. Brooklyn, NY.

As soon as I arrived, my niece and I went for COVID tests around the corner. Unlike many places in the Bay Area, it’s so easy here in NY. This is us celebrating the results with a quick trip to the grocery store. Also, unlike California, they want you to supply your own bag. Hence the armload of goodies along with the bell.

Day 175

September 12, 2020. Sunset 7:21 PM. San Francisco, CA.

The air is white with fog and smoke— better looking but still not so good to breathe.
Day 175 sheltering in place

dining like it 2019

September 12, 2020. Sunset 7:08 PM. Brooklyn, NY.

Clusters of sidewalk dining at sunset. Looks pretty- scary.

Raining Ashes

September 11, 2020. Sunset. 7:22 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Raining ashes on 9/11. Remembering. Still mourning.
Day 174 Sheltering in place.

September 11 Sunset

September 11, 2020. Sunset 7:10 PM. Brooklyn, NY.

Arrived. Just parked the truck. Walking home- grabbing my mask and bell just in time.

Day 173

September 10, 2020. Sunset 7:24 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Our neighbor Matt – stalwart company in spite of the stay indoors warning for air quality.
Day 173 Sheltering in place.

bugs with our bells

September 10, 2020. Sunset 7:43 PM. Gates Mills, OH

Our last evening together, Lucy and I walked out to the meadow to ring with the insects. We sampled two more bells from her grandmother's collection.

Day 172 the color of air

September 9, 2020. Sunset 7:25 PM. San Francisco, CA.

The air this evening at least looked like it might belong on the planet Earth and not Mars as it did earlier in the day. However, it’s such a super white eerie light that I’ve never seen before—It seems to be this combination of the super bright LED streetlights overtaking what would be the fading ambient daylight. Those dark shadows. And the masks tell the rest of the unbreathable air quality story. No end in sight.
Day 172 Sheltering in place.

Turkeys Gone Home

September 9, 2020. Sunset 7:44. Gates Mills, OH.

This is where the 7 turkeys hang out during the day. All clear in the evening, making way for the crickets’ concert. These are the same bells we rang last night.

Day 171 Smoke

September 8, 2020. Sunset 7:27 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Smoke. Masks are serving double duty here these days.
Day 171 Sheltering in place.

“whoever touches me hears my voice”

September 8, 2020. Sunset 7:45 PM Gates Mills, OH.

Final stop before the last leg to New York. Visiting with my friend Lucy who lives near fields and woods filled with the voices of crickets and grasshoppers and has turkeys wandering around in her flower garden. Her grandmother’s middle name was bell and (coincidentally?) she ended up collecting many, many bells. We rang two of them this evening — one was a replica of a St. Mark’s monastery bell inscribed in Latin - “whoever touches me hears my voice”.
Lucy’s mother used it to call Lucy and her siblings into dinner when they were children.

Day 170

September 7, 2020. Sunset 7:28 PM.

Labor Day ---Our neighbor Matt- a day off from Zoom and school- v e r y relaxed… Day 170 Sheltering in place.

Portage Anyone?

September 7, 2020. Sunset 7:11 PM. Port of Indiana/Portage, IND

After driving East for miles and miles with the sun shooting straight into the rear-view mirror and nothing else to do—I’ve gotten pretty good at estimating how much further I can drive before the sun hits the horizon. On cloudy days, it’s harder to tell—the light just starts to fade, and things become greyer. Such as this evening-- I pulled off the freeway and noticed this sign which turns out to point the way to one of 3 major Ports of Indiana. This one is for The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor, where there is a major power plant.

Day 169 introducing-- the bell

September 6, 2020. Sunset 7:30 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“How’s it going?
Very hot and smokey here.
Bernie, Mardi and Matt came".
Day 169 Sheltering in place

4-armed bell ringer

September 6, 2020. Sunset 7:28 PM. Ironwood, MI.

Kathy’s son, Sam took this photo of the 4-armed bellringer returning from ringing down the sun over the lake. We all met in the far north of Minnesota 20 years ago when Kathy and her young (at that time) children participated in a traveling vaudeville project that I was doing there. We have been friends ever since, though have not seen each other once since then. Nobody wants to wait another 20 years to do this again. I'll miss you guys in the meantime.

Day 168

September 5, 2020. Sunset 7:31 PM. San Francisco, CA.

“no one came. Keep well, Love Norman”
Day 168 Sheltering in place

bells for dessert

September 5, 2020. Sunset 7:30 PM. Ironwood, MI.

Dinner on the porch at sunset. Actually, we’ve eaten all of our meals outside today. Another fine dining experience- wonderful friends and special venue overlooking Lake Superior. Bells for dessert <3

DAY 167 arty

September 4, 2020. Sunset 7:33 PM. San Francisco, CA.

When Norman agreed to take over the evening bell ringing at home, he asked how he was supposed to ring and document at the same time. I said the most important thing was to ring the bell on time and then just snap a photo either before or after. “What should I take a picture of?” I suggested that he include the bell if he could and not to make it too “arty”.
So, this is the photo from this evening, and here’s what he wrote in the email with the photo attached. “Hi. No one showed up. Photo attached. All I can do is ‘arty’, I’m afraid. I did go to art school”.
Day 167 Sheltering in place

a Superior sunset

September 4, 2020. Sunset 7:32. Ironwood, MI. Just made it in time to watch the sun set over Lake Superior with my friend Kathy and her son, Sam. It’s amazing to be standing there in what until now has only been a beautiful looking landscape and to be breathing the air (not smoky), listening to the wind in the very tall birch trees--and looking at that view for real! Hoping to see a few hummingbirds tomorrow.

Double Duty Day

September 3, 2020. Sunset 8:07 PM. Valley City, North Dakota.

Coming down the home stretch of a 1000-mile drive—the final 5 hours! Riding on HWY 94 East, the sun was blasting in the rear-view mirror from the west. It was a no brainer to grab the phone/map/music player and hold it up to the mirror and snap this shot. Then drive for hours into the darkness.

Day 165 Community effort.

September 2, 2020. Sunset 7:36 PM
San Francisco, CA.

I love seeing friends and neighbors carrying on the tradition while keeping Norman company. The constant bleakness is in such contrast to the places I pass through. It’s weirdly grounding, though. Home.
Day 165 Sheltering in place.

Resting off the road

Sunset 7:57 PM. September 2, 2020.
Emigrant, MT.

Ringing bells again with Lisa and Will at sunset, just before another delicious meal in the most spectacular venue ever. There was zero wind this evening, so I recorded Will’s bells, while adding a few little tinkly sounds of my own.

Day 164 forlorn

Sunset 7:39 PM. September 1, 2020.
San Francisco, CA.

Cold. Cloudy. Lonely. (such a contrast with this evening in Montana). Sorry Norman.
Day 164 Sheltering in place from one end of the street to the other -- BH