There They Were

There was a lot still left to do. So we ate lunch relatively quickly and then left the cafeteria to return to our conference rooms.

The Vehicle Assembly Building towered behind us against a blue sky. The green tinted building where we were meeting was across the street. A fifth floor balcony wrapped around its northeasterly corner. From there you could look out on Merritt Island and in the distance see pads 39A and 39B rising out of the wetlands.

We crossed the street, talking about protocols and packets, simulators and emulators. Rebecca was telling us about the software she works on: what it does and how it was named. And then she stopped.

Look, she said, pointing to two Ibis sunning themselves just a few feet away on the other side of a ditch. There they are, just sitting there.

We turned and looked and briefly stopped, and then we returned to our meeting.

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