Jenny awakened early the next morning and lay still in the bed for a long while. The rising sun, peeking over the eastern hills, sent beckoning rays in through the lace curtains that filtered the light. At last, Jenny sighed and then rising quietly from her bed, she threw a shawl around her shoulders, left her room, and tiptoed down the hall. Rachel and Daniel were still asleep in her parent’s old room and Bobby was in the guest room.
She opened the front door and stepped out onto the porch. There was an autumn chill in the air, and she pulled the shawl tighter around her shoulders. The leaves on the trees surrounding the house were vibrant with gold and red in the filtered dawn-light and the grass of the lawn had that slight gilded tinge that meant the yard was going to sleep until the s
