Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.

Which description from the excerpt above helps infer the mood of the setting?

hard clay is swept clean
fine sand around the edges
breezes that never come inside the house
I will wait for her in the yard