Little Pond Spoke Today

Garen Daly — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:26:52 -0400

Little Pond spoke today. Through the long winter, it was silent. Today it spoke and I listened for over an hour. It was so good to hear it.

There's still some snow on the north bank, but the temperature hit 60 degrees and things stirred. When I heard from my back porch, I walked quietly over. I did not want them to get spooked. I walked past the mole damaged back yard. Past the place where the big bull frog had been eaten by the blue heron The gutted carcass long absorbed into the grass.

About five feet from the edge, they stopped. I stopped and stood still. They picked up the conversation at the other end of the pond. How could they know I was creeping up on them?

I remained quiet and still. I regretted not grabbing my binoculars. I looked at the pond. There were a few green shoots poking through the winter trampled cattails. I saw a flash of orange. A few koi fish were stirring in the warmed up water. A couple of insects were skeetering across the water and a few flying bugs wandered aimlessly amidst the brown vegetation.

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Little Pond Spoke Today