Pulling the night behind it a gentle breeze meandered through the tree tops and playfully caressed the leaves and grass causing them to sway, to me it seemed as if they were waving a thankyou to the gentle wind for bringing some relief from the sweltering day. On its back it carried the fragrance of the days end, the sweet and cool of the lake, the dryness and powdery softness of the dust and the acrid heat of the dying day.

Do you spell it that way when referring to "Thank You" as a noun? I don't believe I've ever seen that.

The images in the piece are thorough: colour, sound, movement, touch, taste and smell. You have appealed to all the senses.

Watch the commas. Make sure when you use them that it is a comma you need rather than a period. Make sure they are there when you need them too, like:

Pulling the night behind it,a gentle breeze...

Words like rhapsody are strong so make sure it is the word you mean. To me it represents uninterrupted fugue, somnambulant bliss, ecstasy.

I will read on but would be expecting an introduction to the character pretty soon.

To Skynyrd: I believe the 'thankyou' was intentionally misspelt to draw the eye to it. I agree that it is not a good idea to change literary convention like this, but sometimes is suits the style, as with the odd capitalization. I found most of 'Pride and Prejudice' (Jane Austen) to be written in a way that almost all of the nouns could have been capitalized and it would have only made the novel more hilarious than it is already.