We're smack dab in the middle of the transition from summer to fall and it is just heavenly here. The air is cool at night and the temps just barely hit 80 during the day. The mornings are foggy and brisk, and the sunrises have been fiery and magnificent. Late brood goldfinches are learning to fly, hawks are floating on the thermals and the crickets and cicadas are competing nightly for noisiest bug on the planet.
Our new patio will be sealed on Monday and the materials for our pergola have been ordered from a sweet little rural saw mill down the road in Alpine, NY. It'll be put together in our contractor's shop and then reassembled here at home. We can hardly wait and the good thing is that there is a lot more of summer left in the change over to fall!
While I wasn't looking, it seemed that almost every single Cornell student arrived back in town en mass over the weekend. And if the traffic snarls weren't proof enough of their presence, I've already had one near death experience in the Wegmans parking lot with a Lexus SUV bearing NJ plates. Ah well...this is Ithaca after all. My lesson schedule is nearly complete and until school starts up on Wednesday my goal is to savor every last ounce of summer I possibly can.
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