Hong Kong: arrival

A Year Without Winter...
...begins with a day without night--as we chase the sun across the Pacific.

(And a week without sleep)

We started the morning with Duke Ellington's "Far East Suites". Through the sliding windows of Phoebe & John's tidy wood-and -mirrors apartment on the 19th floor, we see the foggy city and industrial harbor, neighborhood folk practicing Tai Chi on the soccer field below, and the green mountains of China to the north. A pair of kites (hawks) circle in the air off the balcony. In typhoons, this apartment is in the middle of the clouds.

Phoebe & 8-mo Hattie Mae have just returned from their first "happy-clappy" KinderMusic class. There's a Chinese theatre festival on deck for the evening. And dim sum to be had.
The year begins.