Around the banks

The back screened porch was cool and inviting and the late spring day was clear and warm. We sat in cane-back rocking chairs on the back porch and we both drank a glass of cold sweet iced tea with lemon. I went on that visit as an errand for my parents. "Take our friend a bowl of this nice fruit I cut up this morning and I made too much pound cake for us, take half of this. She will enjoy this." She greeted me at her front door with a smile and a "Come on in, it's good to see you." We hugged. I told her what my mother sent for her and she thanked me. "Let's have a piece of that pound cake right now," she said. "We'll sit on the back porch. I just had a new ceiling fan put in. Nice and