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Show iast Friday, and by Friday night the frontal wedge of a cold air mass from the north had pushed in under that last searing blast, causing a quick shift of the wind, as we say. There was a sudden chill in the air, and an errie moan- . ing around the eaves and in the trees. The passing frofH brought rain on Friday night. Saturday was clear and cool.The sky was a clean bright blue from which all the dust had been washed away, across whose clear expanse there moved high wisps of cirrus clouds, like feathers scattered by the wind and light blankets of high, flu'ffy, serried ser-ried cirrocumuli. The first frost hit the valley Saturday night, and the farmers were glad it had held off through September again this year for most of the seed was down by then. The clear, cool weather has settled over our iya , world with the coming 0f It al umn. 8 1 ,he auu There are the golden da the year, the harvest days Z, ' has brought forth her eron? e I now seems to be resting Lm the low, slanting sunlight, aw'ai? ing the coming of the JI! when the color of the earth change from gold to silver . i the life of the fields will L flni mant under a blanket of snow Z til the spring rains call it , "' again. rltl The short flight of this Sundav afternoon has been pleasant i deed. As the little plane makes s long power glide to the airport there isn't a ripple in the air , settles smoothly to a perfect land ing. , Wiiicgovcrs - "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON WINS PRIZE . . . Merritt Floyd has just received a check for $117.50 from the Lincoln Lin-coln Welding Co. This payment is an award made by the company in a nation-wide contest for the best paper on the subject of arc welding. Merritt was awarded fourth place among the entrants. THE GOLDEN DAYS ... The advent of Indian Summer impels me to rhapsodize a bit on the beauty of the season and the bounteousness of nature. The autumnal aut-umnal equinox occurred at 0944 on the 23rd of September this year, but for Delta the actual change in the seasons came about a week later. Summer blew itself out in that fierce, hot, dry, dusty wind Sunday marked the coming of another an-other autumn time, the most delightful de-lightful season of the year. Fall weather is ideal for flying. The dense air lifts the wings of a little plane with a buoyancy and verve they never feel in the hot, flat air of the summer, and the prop bites into it With a new sure-ness. sure-ness. Under full throttle it picks up speed on the runway and flies itself off so smoothly one isn't quite sure when it leaves the ground. It climbs swiftly, surely, a thousand feet, two thousand, three and four, until it is as high as the mountain tops. The scrub oak along the canyon can-yon streams is a blaze of color, higher up majestic evergreens stand in sharp contrast to the red and orange colorings of the shrubs and grass. The recent storm left a light skiff of snow on the highest craggy peaks. A dozen deer are grazing on a high meadow. mea-dow. The little plane's engine purrs smooth as silk, invigorated by the cool clean air through which it flies.. . Down on the valley floor the fields, so lushly green a few short weeks ago, have turned to brown and gold. Smoke rises placidly from the chimney of a farmhouse. A few cows stand idly in one field, a flock of turkeys is gathered gather-ed in another. An air of peace |
