Evening Come

Jack and Lorraine taught me well. A day of dining out made us hungry for familiar foods, so we went to the local Whole Foods and grocery shopped, eating out of our bags for dinner.

Afterward, we had a long swim and shared a lounger while the sun went down. The hotel courtyard, just beyond the adobe fence surrounding the pool is a coiffed green lawn split down the middle with a scrolling wrought-iron trellis (home to flowering vines and a flock of tiny songbirds). All around are nooks for upholstered outdoor furniture, mosaic-topped drink tables, and wooden rocking chairs, the kind you could grow old in. We sat outside, eating pina colada ice pops, until the torch lights came on. And now it''s time for bed.