Path

I took a long walk along the C&O Canal today with a new friend. It's nice to see so much color still on the trees so late in the season, so close to Thanksgiving -- the upside of this year's drought followed by the belated fall rains. Sometimes it's hard to tell if the reds and golds are disappearing or just emerging, like a kind of springtime in reverse. We stopped for a while by the river on the other side of the path. Then as we started back, I noticed my cell phone was missing from my back pocket. We went back to our spot, and there it was nestled in some leaves. Just before I saw it, D. dialed my number from his cell. As I bent to pick the phone up, it was ringing. I answered it, and he stayed on the line.