Cold weather finally caught up with us two days ago. Yesterday's stiff breezes brought biting wind chills in the teens. A shocking difference from the 60 degree highs that dominated the past week.
Even as late as Thursday morning a flock of inland gulls continued to gather at dawn and leisurely ride the air currents. Circling, gliding, they reveled on the warmth of an extended autumn. Had they been paying attention, perhaps their departure wouldn't have been so hasty.
Precipice
A gathering of gulls
wheels, luxuriates in thermal edges.
But lengthening shadows
cut short the light, and the egrets have fled.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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