It was one of those days at the end of the summer when it was still hot but you could sort of talk yourself into thinking that there was something in the air that made it feel like fall. Like a breeze that was a few degrees cooler. Or a dead leaf lifted by that same breeze and snagged on a power line.

(And this: I thought the photo was going to be about that old barn. The leaf changed that for me.)

Cookieville, Oklahoma
photographed 9.18.2021