NIght time is the Right time....

I promise to 

end this relentless

reporting from my BAKW....soon.

I confess

I have seen no one who looks like they 

are an actress, or an actor....

Everyone I have laid eyes on 

has looked to be a hard-working joe,

very much like you or me......

(or course, all I do is sit by the window)

They arrived early in the morning...

They spent a lot of time setting up,

consulting with each other,

and re-arranging what the previous crew had left behind...

They wore interesting hats....

Honestly, it was pretty cold in the mornings...

so, coffee and hot drinks were common.

They brought in a crane yesterday....

that confused me a bit...

but it became clearer as the day went on..

I am glad that I didn't have to climb to the top of that ladder,

I saw the person who did, he didn't give it a thought.

All day the vans were prepared to transport...

Did I mention the hats?

This guy must be very important.

His hat was the largest, by far,

and most interesting.

It appears to be a knitted toboggan

stretched over a flouresent orange hard hat....

All day long they worked...

I could not tell if they were actually filming,

as all the "real action" was taking place 

inside.

But 

things got rather more dramatic

as the natural light faded....

I had been cooking dinner,

when I noticed that it was dark.

As I gazed out,

I saw brilliant light outside...

It is difficult to put into words,

and even harder to photograph,

(as my equipment is not for night shooting)

but the world looked dark,

with the exception of this one 

very bright spot,

suspended at least 30 feet in the air.

(that's what the crane is for..)

This went on for hours...

They had a scrim positioned in front of the 

condo's balcony to diffuse the intensity of the spot lights...

And occasionally,

they moved the light.....

on it went...

into the evening and late into the night...

I was tired,

and went to bed around 10:30, knowing they were out 

there still working....lights on, but no noise....

Gosh, I thought, they sure are quiet....

ZZZZZZZ......

Then, this morning,

I woke, came down for the coffee,

and my sweetie says

"They are almost entirely packed up and gone"

What?!

How could that be?

I wake at the drop of a hat, and I was sure 

that I would wake if they started 

"breaking down" the set.

Off to the BAKW!

and....sure enough, 

this is what I saw.....

So....

This is what I know....

they are filming a pilot for 

a Television series...

It is called

Homeland

starring 

Claire Danes.

They have been filming all over town,

and several locations were mentioned in publications 

earlier in the month.

There was absolutely no mention of the filming in my 'hood.

That's cool....in fact, one of the crew told a neighbor that it 

had been pretty nice filming here, because no one had bothered them

Ooops.....

I believe they jinxed themselves...

that very night,

it is reported that late in the evening,

one  of the neighbors got a bit 

tipsy (that's what we will call it anyway)

and wandered over, 

up the front steps,

into the room where they were filming 

and started yelling at them...

(how embarrassing)

here, we were earning a reputation for being sort of 

cool, hip, calm, easy to work around....

and some yah-whoo goes and

messes that up....

Anyway,

they asked this person to leave,

she wouldn't,

the policeman on site,

told her to leave,

and she did...

jeez....

That's all Folks!

smiles.....