It is Spring

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Leaves unfurling into billion breaths...
Goose babies seeing the world with newborn eyes... wonders of a young leaf, a blade of grass...
Lotuses rising to the pond's surface...
Just about arrived... with twig in her beak... coming home...
Calling chitters... waving Spring...

The Baby is Born

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

CAUTION yellow ribbons... enclosing wooded area. Passers-by with cameras. Rangers moving around...
What is going on?... BABY OWL. Where?...
THERE... a ball of fluffy feathers... knows we are all here... watching...
She fell from the nest. Cannot fly just yet... And mother is up on the tree... observing...

Is it Spring?

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Soaking wet... cold... 4°C (39°F) ... And she is flowering...

The Way of Nature

Black's Nook, Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Swans on the Pond... Cleaning their feathers... Methodical. Meticulous... Their long necks twisting and turning. Reaching the most distant vanes... Splashing the water... Amid all the motions, sparkles sliding down the plumes... Flapping wings... The Way of Nature. Tao is staring at me...