Perfect Day ... Tempts Us for Autumn Weather Ahead

It is days like this that help us to remember why we live in Mississippi through the hot summers and the cold damp winters.  There is only one word that can describe a day like today...perfect.

Morning Mist hanging on the branches of the trees
 in front of our house.

It is noon and I am sitting in the park in downtown Jackson wishing I were sitting in the woods surrounding our house in Florence. This morning  the cool temperatures and humidity placed a heavy dew on everything outdoors and as an added benefit, filled the air with a light filtering fog beautifying everything the early morning sunlight illuminated. Spider webs were magical in that light decorated with beads of dew. just about sunrise a lonesome train whistled its warning as past first through town and then down the tracks that bisect Dre's family's land where our home is situated nicely amidst the trees and meadows.  That train's whistle seemed as if could be heard from twice as far this morning as on normal mornings.  I don't know if it was the humidity or just the still new of the early morning but I was entranced as I listened to it moving across the countryside.

Canada Geese are not heading south yet but, they are
on the move.

A small doe watching me watch her.

The  blooming of the late summer and early fall flowers are adding new colors to the landscape as mother nature readies herself to don her brilliant autumn colors and rich fall hues. As I left the drive I notice our mailbox decorated with rich green vines and the sky blue flowers of a volunteer morning glory. Anyone that knows me knows that I almost never miss work but this morning and this premature fall day presented me with an almost irresistible temptation to just that.  But, I made it to work and because I did I am enjoying this wonderful lunch hour under cloudless sky in the quiet of an urban park.The soft breeze offers just enough cooling to make this 84 degree day perfect.

I have to back to work but can easily finish the day with the memory of this day carrying me forward until next time.
Until next time...