Every afternoon, around 6 o’clock, the sun drops down across the hill in front of the farmhouse, shining straight into my study window and when I think of it, I put a dahlia or a geranium in front of the window, and the bright light illuminates the curtain and it looks sometimes to me like a stained glass window, it is a quiet and simple beauty. It signals the end of the day for me.
25
April
Last Light: My Geranium
by Jon Katz