7:30 p.m. cooling - 80 degrees
clear, light breeze out of the south - Delta breeze
Rio Linda Airport
sun low in the sky
Scott is taking the kids up for rides in the 150; I wait on the ground with whoever isn't up in the air. Several birds out, we see magpies, mocking birds and a flock of blackbirds off the end of the runway. We're sitting on some old steel chairs in the cut dead grass, in the shade of a couple trees off the runway. A scruffy female blackbird lands and "skirich's" near us - maybe 10 feet away - Dee follows her until she finally flies away.
Scott drops off Phil, takes Dee up - we hear rustling in the bushes along the fence and Phil spots a garter snake, who slithers away into a hole before I can catch a glimpse, too.
Sun much lower on the horizon now, it rests just above the clack row of oaks to the west of the runway.
We hear an odd sound, something between a duck quacking and a little dog barking, then we see a pair of herons slowly settle down to land on the ski-boat lake next door.
A pair of crows sit and occasionally caw out from the top dead branches of a nearby tree.
8:16 p.m. - the sun seems to suddenly dip behind the west row of oaks, putting us in a long shadow - the cessna comes in for a landing - time to go home.
