My October 2021 Calendar Page

 Here is my October 2021 Calendar page.  The quote I chose for this month:

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October"

-- Alexander Smith

the verse continues beautifully as follows:

"...when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.”

Yesterday was a gorgeous first day of October.  My departed uncle's partner called me, she seemed in a talkative mood.   We keep in touch every couple of months.  It seems the phones in her apartment had stopped working so she got a cell phone temporarily.   My uncle passed a few days before last Christmas so she is still grieving but gradually improving.  She mentioned the many (messy) pigeons on her balcony and even a hawk recently, which is quite uncommon.  It seems the wildlife are coming into the city increasingly.  She saw the hawk turn its head 360 degrees one way, then the other.  I didn't know they did that.  She wondered if he was a sign from her late partner.