The sky was a billion pure eyes of light and the grass green underfoot, it was as if night and day had become one beautiful moment. Dawn had come. By dawn's early light the riders came, the sun opening up as a flower on the horizon, rising to send those petals of gold to warm the forest - leaf, branch and root. So, this dawn, as the blackish-greens take on their vibrant and verdant hues, let it soak in a little deeper. As the sky changes from charcoal to soft dove grey, Autumn already cherishes the blue that is to come. For the dawn is the invitation to the day, to the gift that is the present if we have the courage to see it fully and to love it with all that we are. It was the day of the wedding. Finally it had arrived. Merlin and Autumn both had been given separate rooms and the babi

