On late summer evenings, long shadows play among the beach grasses and oceanside pine trees.
With lights for night play already in place, the volleyball games could continue on warm summer evenings long after the sun went down.
It's all come true, the fulfillment of childhood evenings long ago -- you and your sisters all in pajamas, eating popcorn and watching awards shows on television.
Little League and other organized sports were available, and because Starrett City had its own security force, free play lasted into the evenings, long past the hour that other city kids were Fox-Locked into their homes.
The wayfarers come on wheels and on foot, pausing their evenings long enough to bring a little sparkle to their lives, before the city goes about sullying them again.
On chilly Istanbul evenings, long after the final call to prayer, you can sometimes hear the street vendors cry out to advertise their sweet, thick and fortifying offering, a true taste of the Ottoman Empire.
