Beautiful Signs of Summer

I walked down to the river yesterday by River Park, after the late afternoon rain had subsided. I wanted to see how high the water had risen after the rain. When I was there, I saw two black-crowned night herons, some seagulls and swallows, and a juvenile green heron skipping around the rocks looking for something good to eat. I also saw many big brown bass, swimming over each other and over the submerged concrete edges of the North Branch dam, flipping their tails and some even trying to flip themselves over the barricade. It gave me a feeling of freshness and excitement to get back out on the river this year.