#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream
It’s my day to drive Wave and I see in the yard what I warned Frank about yesterday: snapper egg laying season. Well, there she is in the yard, wondering where the garden went. She can’t lay on the tennis court. Well, there are plenty of other places for her to lay her eggs. They just typically return to familiar spots. She’s big and covered with leaf litter on her shell as if she just climbed up out of the bottom of the river. She probably did. Wave and I got out, without Chippy, to say good morning. From a safe distance. He gets cheerfully off to school after we play and I make his lunch and breakfast in a whirlwind morning. Today is the most spectacular day of seeing wonderful inhabitants like the mama turtle. When my daughter comes in the afternoon we walk to the river and on the way stop at my milkweed garden where a monarch is fluttering happily around. At the river the geese and goslings are having their relaxing time at the boat landing and they depart into the river current when we come. We see what we think might be cormorants at the next landing on the broken trees on the river shore, and when we go over I realize the cormorants are actually a very happy pair of loons! I’ve never seen loons on the river before! it’s quite a thrill. The beaver have been chewing up the tree limb and carrying more of it off. At the next landing we’re delighted by the wild yellow iris in the grass in full bloom. What a fabulous day to be on the river. I hope it rains tonight. Did you see the moon rising? Well, the scammer is back on me. Started calling me from What’s App today, telling me to send him his money. I blocked him and called my bank again. What a pain. I started to doubt myself a bit. Because that’s how they work. But I am still doing the right things. I went to an online poetry workshop tonight with the Poetry Society of New York on fragments and it was interesting and I wrote a bit. We heard the call of the pileated woodpecker as we walked through the trees talking wedding talk.
