Saturday morning, the sun is back

Yesterday, I was sure the tree through the office window, and the grasses on the marshes, were turning yellow and red before my eyes, through a prism of falling rain. Today they stand in the sun and are green again... but a hint of yellow and red remains. A hint of October?

Dogs were everywhere this morning. Maybe everyone else's dog did the same as Fury yesterday--hibernated, slept, closed eyes to ignore the rain, refused to go out, not tempted by a rattling lead or the putting-on of shoes and bug spray. She was ready to go this morning, impatient to walk and sniff and get wet (Bay water is not the same as Rain water). We walked to the corner of our street to turn right towards the Bay, and there was lady with her German Shepherd/golden Husky? cross straining at its leash towards us. So I turned us around and we walked the length of our three-home street to take the next street to the Bay. Turned left, and there was the young man with his Boxer. So back we went, and just missed a guy with two big black labs... got to the corner, and there was someone else with his Border Collie. We were just ahead of him and arrived at the corner with the first beach, where the swans sometimes gather with the geese and the egrets--but parked just around the corner was the green covered pickup truck, door open, where the dog that chased Fury and Karli, trailing its owner, travels. This may well have been the first dog we encountered this morning.... so we went back home, and Fury laid and rolled on the street and on my neighbour's lawn, sunbathing, as we chatted in the morning sun.