Today is a gray day, the air is muggy, and if you go outside it feels as if your oxygen is being supressed.  I don't go outside on days like this because I have breathing problems.  And although it's only in the low 70's I have the A/C turned on.  But I do enjoy sitting in the chair at my bedroom window and looking outside. 

I see so many things, the leaves are turning bottom up waiting on the rain to come.  A mourning dove waddles around in the grass underneath the small tree in the front yard.  I only see one dove his mate is not with him, they most always appear in pairs so I wonder if she has passed away  and he is left behind to exist by himself for they mate for life.  He looks lonely just bobbing his head and slowly walking around then he flys off.  A golden finch comes and sits on a branch, I  have had a finch feeder out all summer but its still full of thistle seeds I wait to see if he will fly down and sit on the feeder but he just looks and flys away.  Then the tree begins to stir, and the raindrops come falling down.  The earth that is nothing but dust where the grass will not grow soon turns a dark black, and the breeze is blowing harder into a wind. 

No more birds are out, the squirel across the way has darted into the large oak tree.  And I decide to get up and make a cup of tea.  Fall will be here before I know it. 

I will miss the summer, yet let the colors come and delight me once more.

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