Even Just a Tiny Improvement

in the weather brings folks out: plenty of flitting white bugs all along lake's shore; symphonic crows, chickadees, blue birds (so many bluebirds!), and cranes (sandhill, I think, beyond the woods); bikers; students and a professor armed with binoculars (bird watchers?); two dog walkers with three dogs; a hammocked individual slumped on the opposite shore.

It is as if the brilliant colors of blood and cara cara oranges leaked out, tasting like the promise of spring.