A balmy, soft warmth poured into the room, heavy with velvety smells, redolent of many blossoms, of newly fledged trees and of the moist, freshly turned red earth.
Travelers at that altitude can expect a comfortable pressure of one Earth atmosphere, and their thermometers will register a balmy 59 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 15 degrees Celsius, not too shabby.
Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.