Greenlake

There is a glacier-carved lake in Seattle, 2.9 miles around, which is
vibrating in the most spectacular way today. Greenlake is girded in
willows, reeds, and other such water-loving plant life, and today the
yellow-green new foliage is in synchronicity with the yellow-green buds
and blossoms. Everything is bursting out after our exceedingly wet and
cold winter. The air itself seems to vibrate, and the ducks and
red-winged blackbirds are hungry and flirtatious, their hunger pushing
them to rare levels of appreciation of humanity and humanity's
occasional hand-outs. The air remains cold here, but we are having
bursts of brilliant sunshine in the mornings, and the bright light,
amplified by the surface of the lake, is a powerful dose of what we so
desperately need, natural light.