I don't know enough about weather to know if this is a common thing with clouds, or a feature of living surrounded by ocean, but I notice that the horizon tends to be clear at sunrise and sunset, even when the rest of the sky is covered in a dense grimy grey-brown fleece. If you're lucky, you get a pair of brief moments of light, and a little of that happy jittery feeling of impending grace that is the birthright of a spring or summer day.

Hardly saw daylight these last two days, sunset having hit the five o'clock range. I don't know how anyone can call November autumn, in this part of the world.

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