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It was sunny, but cool, yesterday, too cool to sit comfortably on the deck. We'd done our gardening and were sitting in our back room with friends for a late afternoon cocktail.
In an instant, I noticed a seagull land cautiously on the railing outside our western window. This was a very rare occurrence, and never had I seen one in this location.
It was a moment one wishes the camera had been ready. But it wasn't, so I have sketched it here.
We had made Coronation sandwiches for the celebrations this weekend: white sandwich loaf with the crusts carefully cut off before the delicious egg salad and salmon salad had been slathered onto the crustless bread slices. These crusts I had bagged, thinking perhaps the gulls would appreciate them. But for some reason, the gulls were scarce and those which did come by did not seem at all interested in these bland morcels.
Nevertheless, I kept the bag on the ready in our back room, just in case. But I did not think it appropriate to leave them dangling from the back of the rocker by the door there when guests were coming. So, I placed the bag on a table outside on the deck by that railing to the west.
Shortly after the initial sighting of the gull out the west window, I gasped. The table had been obscured from my vision by the wall. I saw, out the southern window, the majestic but cheeky bird fly off gracefully with the bag carefully dangling from its handles in its beak.
I am sure it winked at me.
