We took a walk in the last of the warm evenings for some time to come, and were startled by the brilliance of the first trees turning, blazing red against the low sun and casting long shadows, a black cat curled in fallen leaves beyond them, and a silver sliver moon beginning to rise in the darkening southern sky. My ability to sometimes move quickly from lack of knowledge to becoming well-informed is always something I forget about myself when it comes time to rejoice in my merits and today was a good example of this in practice.