togetherness

We've had a string of beautiful fall days where the air is so soft and the sun so gently warm that it lulls you away from even thinking that a deep chill is right around the corner

...and today, when I was sitting on the porch, I found myself unable to resist this hypnotic air and sat quietly unwilling to move.

Earlier in the day, I had heard the resident crows chasing off various hawks and going about their duties as general overlord to their designated home environment as they would threaten wrongdoers with their scurrilous calls given out with righteous indignation and outrage.

But now, in the later afternoon with only the soft warmth of the sun to blanket us, three crows came to land on a larger tree nearby and seemed to let themselves fall under the spell of this moment of peace and quiet as they took to preening and caretaking of each other. In that moment, I felt that, just as I could not escape the pull of this reverie, they too, were brought under the soothing incantation of a moment only to be found in nature.

Done