Busy times here in Baltimore. In the daze after a long night caring for people in the hospital, I leave the apartment with Jane and walk down to the waterfront here in East Baltimore, between old brick townhouses, past the boats docked along the marina in Canton. Buying ice cream at Kilwin's in Fells Point, we sit and enjoy our cones by the water, gazing at the old smokestacks and shipyards across the harbor in Locust Point. A beautiful, early fall evening here in the city. As we walk back home, the horizon darkens in color, and the sky assumes lovely shades of deep purple and blue. All around us, the electric streetlamps are flickering on.