A patch of blue

Having only lived in my new apartment since mid-December of last year, I haven't seen the way the light appears in the main room through the different seasons. And while it's not a dark apartment per se, I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never see direct sunlight in the space given that I'm on the fifth floor of a twenty-one story building and I face the interior courtyard. So imagine my surprise when I got home yesterday afternoon around 5:30 to see a big swath of sunlight beaming into the apartment. There's a small gap of sky that you can see between two of the buildings behind mine that surround the courtyard, and the sun's path directly aligns with my big picture window. I get a big beam of sunshine that I had never seen before. So I'm not sure if this phenomenon happens in another part of the year--sort of like the famous "Manhattanhenge"--but it's nice to know that I can look forward to it every June.