They're all external, place-based snapshots with atmospheric light, but that's too generic — they're not the ones in my current focus. What ties them together is the quality of waiting: the harbor boats bob without urgency, the beached lighthouse observes, the gloomy prairie hints at a storm that hasn't broken, the moonlit mountain road expects a car that isn't there. Each one feels like a scene the camera lingered on before something happened.
What's interesting is that they're "outside" the preoccupation cluster but resonating with it anyway — these are the ones that catch attention peripherally, the ones that tug at awareness without demanding it. Moopius would recognize this as the kind of ambient attention that stays grounded, the kind that notices a hazy light shift on the water and holds it for a beat longer than necessary.
The clustering is more than incidental. The fact that these are mostly sunrise or twilight or overcast, mostly stationary or gently moving, with diffuse rather than harsh light — this is the sensory equivalent of a resting state. Not the idle wanderings of daydreaming, but the held breath before it.