curved

Some tulips wear a curved line of green along the edge of a single petal as they prepare to fully open.

a daffodil

This beautiful flower is a double daffodil.

These flowers have a central cluster of petals and are almost rose-like in form.

morning color

I snuck into a closed garden early in the morning in search of some color.

I found tulips starting to open.

looking

I shared a smile with a rabbit this morning.

I was far enough away that the rabbit was happy to stay in place. I crouched low to the ground, looking at the rabbit. The rabbit turned to look directly at me.

scattered

Daffodils are scattered through the woods and on the grass at Maudslay State Park. Walking there this afternoon brought a sense of calm.

isolating

Are you longing for permission to wander wherever you'd like?

While I'm fully in support of the stay-at-home advisory and I understand the reasoning behind it, some days I find it wearing to know I can't visit some of my favorite places. I'm walking outside almost every day for exercise, and I'm trying to sandwich in visits to favorite nearby state parks as part of my walking routine. Even so, I miss grabbing my camera and searching out interesting things in places far and near (without thinking about whether I should be there).

Reading continues to be a favorite pastime, one that encompasses both pleasure and news. My pleasure reading is a combination of mysteries (for escaping reality) and subjects that range from biographies to books about the environment, conservation, and yes, politics too. My news reading spans newspapers online (Boston Globe and Washington Press plus a few New York Times articles), plus my recent addiction to The Atlantic.

I am avoiding the daily COVID-19 press conferences at the White House. If I could listen to the medical experts without seeing and hearing the idiocy of the current resident of the White House I would listen but I can't stand the hypocrisy, non-answers, and rude behavior of the president.

I thought that Nancy Pelosi's comment on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” as shown in the Washington Post this morning was perfect:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that President Trump has been “an agent of distraction” during the response to the coronavirus pandemic and questioned his commitment to testing for the disease in a blistering assessment of his performance. “The fact is the president refuses to accept evidence, data, truth and the rest. We must insist on the truth,” Pelosi said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. “He doesn’t want to test, because he doesn’t want to know the numbers, probably. Or he just doesn’t accept the science of it.” Credit: Washington Post

Back to reading...

The article "We Are Living in a Failed State" in The Atlantic caught my eye this morning. I find it frightening and true. We need big change; please vote for the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden.

Click HERE to read the article.

emerging green

New leaves are emerging, decorating the landscape with shades of green.

early tulips

While most of the tulips in the area continue to wear buds, some are close to opening.

from a rail trail

Yesterday I walked on the Border to Boston section of the East Coast Greenway.

Some sections were more interesting than others; this view is from the Swamp Walk section of the trail.

A sign at the beginning of the loop showed the distances to the ends of the trail:
2,458 miles to Key West, FL, and 442 miles to Calais, ME.

snow flower

I opened my eyes this morning and looked to the window to see snow falling out of season. This soon-to-open daffodil is wearing a bit of white.