Full Moon over Regent's Canal

[dotinthesky]

Regent's Canal, Islington
Originally uploaded by mitch54

When the day reaches 6 o'clock and the sky is still blue, you know the worst of winter is over and we now only have warm days (and rain - perhaps) to look forward to. From where I sit in my new office, I look into an apartment building courtyard (a modern version of Hitchcock's Rear Window - including half-naked men who like to talk on the phone by their curtains) with a good chunk of the heavens.

As my last colleague was leaving today, I pointed out to her the spacecraft that was rising into the sky beyond the courtyard, much like a rocket, its cloud tail a bright pink colour. It wasn't heading towards us, it wasn't flying away - it simply moved up, joining other speeding crafts that left their own tails. A little bit like that Twilight Zone episode where the housewife stops time with her magic necklace once she sees nuclear rockets crossing the sky.

I take the Regent's Canal path home. It's dark by then and I've been notified by my colleague's txt message that the moon is magnificent. And it really is, shining over the canal and guiding my path. There are hardly any bikers or joggers so I can enjoy my loneliness a little - Suede followed by The Smiths in my ears ("Cemetery Gates" reminds me of the scene in Watchmen where they bury the Comedian by a tomb angel with very sad eyes.) In the mornings, this path is filled with bikers rushing to work. I hear stories of people who've been pushed into the canal after confrontations, including a mother with a baby. These bikers aren't as gutsy at night - they probably take well lit roads, the cowardly bastards. And you never see any women here at night, I think to myself just before one profusely apologises on a wobbly bike as we cross paths under a narrow bridge.

Comments

[dilvsy.livejournal.com]

I have no desire to see Watchmen...but didn't you just ruin something with that bit about the Comedian being buried?????

naughty Ollie!!!!!

I still loved this entry, by the way...I am just asking, is all!

lol

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

The Comedian dies in the first scene of the movie. ;-)

And you should go see it! And read the graphic novel it is based on. I'm 100% sure you will love it.

[dilvsy.livejournal.com]

i just feel like smacking the people i see on the posters!

I dunno...not really my bag. At least not at this point in my life. I rarely go to movies anymore anyway. Last one I saw in the theatre was Tropic Thunder!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It's not your usual superhero film. In fact, it's more like a subversion of the genre, with tons of neat special effects and some gory violence. ;-)

[dilvsy.livejournal.com]

still...i'll just wait until i can download it or watch it on the movie network

[a1exxandra.livejournal.com]

I miss Hackney x

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

And Hackney misses you! :-)

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

That is a stunning photo.

I was desperate for my camera on the way home too. I caught sight of a bright light just outside the corner of my right eye, turned, and wow... Dark tall building, random squares within dimly lit, and rising above the corner, lightly swathed in clouds, was the large, bright moon, with a shooting star of aeroplane escaping to the right of that. It was a perfect frame, a screen capture stolen from a dark futuristic fantasy. The photos I took after I raced home, from my balcony, ended up somewhat more Halloweeny.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Oh cool, so you saw the planes too! That's a lovely picture you took.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

I call that a Batman moon, when it's peeking between trees.

[meemeedarling.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, beautiful picture!!!!!!!!!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just?

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Being a cyclist, I really want to blindly defend all cyclists b/c I'm a good rider but I know there are assholes who give us all a bad name. :(

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Got your phone message! Send me by email your full address and what time the partay starts. xo

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Yay!!

[millionreasons.livejournal.com]

My chum, who is both a woman and a cyclist, regularly bikes from Limehouse to Kings X after dark. So there!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

After this post, I've started seeing tons of women on bikes. But none walking.

[petercampbell.livejournal.com]

I used to visit London quite a lot years ago, and never felt unsafe, no matter where I was. In retrospect, I think that's called naivety...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

My first impressions of London were bad, mainly because I was with my parents and they scared me with stories of evil punks. Over the years, I've been feeling progressively safer here, but that's down to knowing the city more and which places to avoid.

[sallypointzero.livejournal.com]

My flat is very Rear Windowish too - and now that I am redecorating I have had a reason to be standing at the windows painting them - and looking out. There seems to be some kind of voodoo prayer meetings or something in one flat. They stand in the middle of the room holding hands singing and chanting and they SHRIEK every so often.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

That's worrying... I hope they are not doing it around someone lying on the floor!

[sallypointzero.livejournal.com]

i didn't think of that

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

If you want, i can come over and keep an eye on the road when they are out while you break into the apartment and investigate it. :-P

[sallypointzero.livejournal.com]

No ta. It was all right fr Stewart and his Picture Windows -- in the uk there's way too high a brick wall to window ratio fr my liking : (