after a pressure-filled week of cubicle climbing, i hied myself off to the
park for some well-deserved me-time... and, because i didn't take the
camera along, there will be no new photos of such things as the two or three
virginia rail chicks haunting the end of the middle boardwalk, or the yellow
warbler dashing through, or the bald eagle adults, or the three river
otters, the beaver child, or the numerous spotted towhees calling all sorts
of calls that weren't meows...

what was most fun was the storytelling from everyone while we waited for
nature to take its course... mine story was simple: i had seen osprey at
most other puget sound locations i'd visited this year, but i hadn't seen an
osprey at JBP all spring, and was getting a little irritated about this
fact. i'd heard from dozens of folks that he was easy to spot, and had been
there "just a few minutes before" for weeks now...

so, i told them about a wonderful woman who was at the park a few nights ago
who had never seen a beaver up-close. when informed she only had to stick
around for a few minutes and one would wander by, she said ok... sure
enough, a beaver chick wandered in about 5 minutes later, but our lady was
not to be seen... when the beaver left 20 minutes later, the lady showed up
a few after that, and was disheartened to hear of the sighting...

i was beginning to think i was cursed as she thought she was, and so i waved
my arms and bellowed at the sky to produce an osprey, and do it RIGHT NOW...

not one minute later, the eagle caught our eye headed westbound, and what
passed like a ship in the night was an osprey going in the other direction,
with fish, headed east towards forbes creek...

i can die happy now.

:)

00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
juanita bay
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