Wednesday was a wonderful day here – we were right under a big high pressure system and the sun shone from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm without a cloud anywhere. The temperature reached 21C and I was tidying up and finishing the burning as it got dark, the air grew very still and the air became very doux (gentle or calm), it was just like a balmy late evening on a campsite in August when it’s been really warm. The sun went down a huge red orb through the trees and the bats came out.
I sat transfixed on the steps to the barn with the walls radiating back the day’s warmth and watched two bats flying in the closest formation possible for twenty minutes. It must be a courtship ritual - they were often so close that it was hard to tell if they were one or two – and it went on and on back and forth along the barn wall, so close I could hear their wings fluttering. At the same time the stars started to come out, first Sirius then Riga and Betelgeuse and then the belt stars of Orion and the sky turned an inky violet colour and both the cats came and sat at my feet on the warm steps.
And I wondered how I could be so lucky as to be living in this place and to experience such a perfect end to the day.
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