Yesterday morning was idyllic. Gorgeous gorgeous weather, in the 50's at night, warm in the low 80's during the day, and dry--so dry Mississippi is under a burn ban. We're having fall weather a month early, but that's fine. Coreopsis, the long stemmed yellow wildflowers are blooming by the side of the roads.

Clear cloudless blue skies, breezy all day. The kind of breeziness that you can open up all the windows and air out the house. I hung some laundered rugs on the clothesline and they dried in a few hours.
This is the time to visit Mississippi, in that window of good weather when it's not hot or rainy or cold and rainy.

Yesterday morning I went to the county seat where on the first Saturday of every month, vendors, yard sale people etc. can set up their displays. It started out with three or four people, now sellers come from other counties have started coming, and the entire block from the highway to the railroad tracks was crowded with vendors.
I didn't see a thing I wanted and left. Not to be elitist, but such a collection of junk I've never seen.

So I went down the road to Ward's, a regional short order place and got pancakes and came home. Saw the neighbor's Longhorn cattle and their calves grazing by the fence down the road to the right, and another neighbor's Belgian draft horses grazing in the field to the left. My mockingbirds perched on the clothesline among the last of the morning glories, the bunnies nibbled on the grass in the yard, and I'm telling you, these were moments of supreme happiness and contentment for me.
Hope you have some of those moments too.


susil