DOWNSTATE, THE HURRICANE battered, flooded, wreaked havoc, and I feel bad for those folks. But it missed me, and I can wander outside in the bracing fall weather without worrying about getting struck by a flying palm frond or a floating car. In fact, the weather around me is perfect, cool mornings to walk in, pleasant partly sunny days to putter about in the yard, pruning, fertilizing, admiring. A late blooming gardenia, that forgot to blossom with its relatives, attracts my eye and so I tip toe up for an appreciative sniff. It is one of those wondrous autumnal days that, as P. D. James wrote, “occur more frequently in memory than in life.” I move some fallen magnolia leaves from the graves of three dear cats, buried in my back yard. A loud riding mower works back and forth a few houses away. Removing my yard gloves, I plop down on the patio to polish off the cup of coffee awaiting me. There’s still one more cup in the coffee pot, inside, but I’m too enthralled by the morning to return just yet to the kitchen. A flash of red disappears into an azalea bush nearby. It is a cardinal, biding his time until I’m gone so that he can visit the feeder off to the right of where I sit. He’s enjoying the morning too, and he is hungry for breakfast. He peeps at me a couple of times. Okay, okay, I get the hint. I take my empty mug back inside and, as I’m filling it up, I glance out the window. He’s at the feeder, chowing down, and his mate joins him there. Our snowless version of winter is around the corner.
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