Welcome back. Here, let me set the campfire for you.

 I'm in (at least) two frames of mind this morning.

This one:

And this one:

(photos of me taken this past June in Times Square, by Ash LaRose)

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From Thanksgiving 2009, a (spatial) time and (geographical) feeling to which I return today:

 And the same Thanksgiving but much later in the evening, something more akin to today minus the waterworks: