June 5

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On June 5 I walked downtown to have lunch with my work buddies.

This pale rock, in the pond at West Park, made it possible to see tadpoles more clearly.

Crop of the above -- three tadpoles, a teeny tiny baby fish, and I think that thing at lower right is a snail....

Fish.  With its shadow.

Look, legs!  Amphibians are amazing.......

I turned around after I left the boardwalk.  I'm standing on land, looking back, west, over the pond.  (I came into the park at left center.  You can see the pavement, which then curves toward the center of the image, and then curves back left, where you can see the beginning of the bridge/boardwalk over the pond.)

I enjoyed lunch with my friends, as always.

After lunch, I went and picked up our red car from the bodyshop, where they'd fixed the damage done by running over an unavoidable (big) piece of tire on the highway.



Later in the afternoon, walking.

Peony.

Daylilies!

Old dog.  This is the only day he's been willing to walk more than one small block since last fall.  On June 5, we walked around the big block.

His tail is stiff.  He used to be a very expressive wagger, and now his tail is always in this leftward curve.  He can wag it from the base (but needs some pretty compelling motivation), and can hold it up in the air, if he likes, but no more "wagging just the tip" as he used to do.

Mock orange.

I wish I could show you the scent.........  These smell good.  We had some outside the screened porch of the house we lived in when I was in elementary school and junior high.  I remember reading there, enjoying the mock orange.

Hellebore.  this is the same plant whose flowers we looked up into, a bit earlier.

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