Sparky2*'s photostream  

Maddie's best friend, Snickers, is not much bigger than a large Snickers candy bar! Lots of fast wiggle in this tiny bundle ... ;-) She wasn't in the least bit intimidated by the water or the ducks/geese action at the pond.

Out of coffee? How could I have let this happen?!!! Emergency run to the store ... waiting ...

The Fishermen at Guasti Park
. ~ by Maurya Simon ~

In the first days of summer
the three elms, those slightly
opened fans, unfold
their shadows across the river.
Two dogs arrive exhausted,
tongues dripping, and settle
down near the frogbait jars.
Aiming their poles
toward the center of water,
the Sunday fishermen watch
the light pirouette off
the opposite shore.
Their wives peel onions,
open wine, do their nails.
Most of the men think
as little about gravity
as they do about war and
the weightlessness of time.
How could they know that
it is only the single, collective
thought of their abandoned childhoods
that keeps the world afloat?

*Best seen large on black!