Then, from another direction, less distinct against the breeze, rose the rideout theme of "One O'clock Jump performed by the full Goodman band: another neighbor's salute.
Here's how Ponsot makes that move: "A small breeze rises and the leaves stir / as uneasy as we, while the woods go black; / its voice touches and parts the air of summer / and lets darkness enter us; our strings go slack / though the player keeps up his plangent attack.
As the guests wandered in, greeting each other and their chefs with easy hellos, the fond bond between cultivators and cooks felt as palpable as the warm evening breeze rising off the mesa and flapping the tablecloths.
On the good days, a cool breeze rising off Long Island Sound, the steel traps on the dock stacked and baited with thick chunks of skate, there aren't many things better than being one of the last full-time lobstermen left in Connecticut.
On the day that I visited, a stiff, hot breeze rising up off the ground caught the rig's flag in a whiplash, and EnCana's spokesman, Paul Ulrich, and I had to raise our voices to be heard.
Then near birds peeled upwards, luffing into the breeze, catching that lift and rising steeply.
Turkey buzzards hover in the air around the edges of the bluff, borne aloft by convection breezes rising from the river that warm the apples on cold nights and cool them on hot days.
In the video for "Told You So," which borrows its funk pomp from mid-eighties Prince, Miguel dances by himself in an open field, shirt blowing in the breeze, while a rocket rises from the horizon.
"I'd rather just hop on my bike and have fun rather than go to some destination," said Mr. Tansey, 28, an architect who plans to ride next month through Manhattan, over the George Washington Bridge and along the Hudson River, where cool breezes rise and skyscrapers give way to arching trees.
When the sun rose, the breeze dropped off to almost nothing.
