It is late October and the season is turning. The morning chill is not the surface cool of fog, the chill you feel in…

Patricia Contaxis
Patricia Contaxis’ work has appeared in The Pluralist, San Antonio Review, Rivanna Review, and Notes From The Seashore. Retired after more than thirty years as a marriage and family therapist, she now spends her time on Trail Patrol with the National Park Service, and as a Hawkwatcher for the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. She also enjoys playing mandolin and fiddle with her band, and wandering the coastal hills with her family, their very good boy, and a pair of 8x42 field glasses.