They were seated on the open deck, shaded by a stand of tall deciduous trees. The waiter brought two cups of steaming coffee while they perused the menu. Jack was right. The place was beautiful, and the view even better. They could almost see Jack’s house at the far end of the lake. Two snowy egrets patrolled the flats as if it were a buffet line, plucking fish and pointing their beaks skyward to swallow. Along the shoreline to the left, a great hawk circled, looking down for inattentive prey. A sailboat rocked in the distance, her sails luffing in the light morning wind.
The waiter came to take their orders.
They finished their breakfast, sat back and sipped coffee, while taking in the view and holding hands. Jack glanced down at an advertisement on the placemat.
“Hey Hon, it says here that there’s going to be a nineteenth-century antique fair at the old farm just down the road from my house. Sounds like fun. It’ll be like a trip to the past.”
“Shut up, Jack,” Ashley said, as she leaned over and kissed him.
“Let’s talk about the future.”
“Aye aye, Captain.”
About the Author
Russ Moran is the former CEO of Moran Publishing Company, a publisher of legal periodicals. He is a Navy Veteran, having served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp. He has written two books of non-fiction, Justice in America: How it Works, How it Fails, and The APT Principle — The Business Plan that You Carry in Your Head. He is the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Maritime Museum.
Russ lives on Long Island, New York with his wife Lynda.
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