HAPPY MAY DAY!

 A couple more harbingers of Spring:

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Medford Taylor

We were driving home on an off-ramp next to a man-made pond adjacent to an insurance company when I had the first visual of this year's Canadian goose goslings. Ma and Pa and kids were on the bank of the pond. Being next to a hotel parking lot and containing a paved path around the pond (for workers to get some exercise on their breaks) we circled around for a looksee. As usual, Ma was with the kids while Pa was keeping guard. He allowed us to come within 10 ft or so before moving his family away from potential harm. There were 5 goslings identical in their stage of growth to those depicted above. They moved down the bank into the pond and paddled to the other side.

We also saw that the mayapples had emerged, probably not in bloom yet.