Gift of Wonder
Who in the world is that?"
Alice Bryson put down her iced tea and stood against the balustrade of the old front porch so she could stare across Bayou Rosette at the man walking underneath the oaks along the opposite shore.
Her older sister, Lorene Hobert, glanced up from her cross-stitching, squinting in the late-afternoon sun to get a better glimpse of the stranger about forty yards away on the other side of the marshy bank. "Well, he's certainly a tall drink of water, isn't he?"
"I'll say," Alice replied, her hand going up to shade her eyes as she watched the attractive brown-haired man meticulously measuring off the property with his booted feet. "He has some sort of gadget in his hand. Looks like a pocket watch or a cell phone. He seems to be talking to it."
"Maybe it's a compass," Lorene said, chuckling.
"Maybe he's lost and disoriented. Of course, I talk to myself a lot, too."
Alice grinned at that. "If he's a city boy, he just might be lost." And the way he was dressed in a lightweight gray suit and crisp blue shirt indicated he sure wasn't from around these parts.
"Why don't you walk across the footbridge and help the poor fellow," Lorene suggested, he ... read full excerpt from: Gift of Wonder ebook
