There's nothing quite like a glorious spring day in Maine (unless it's a glorious fall day). This was my first week back at work in the park, and today was amazing. The boss and I got a ton of spring clean-up done and the water systems turned on before he left to get his kids to piano lessons. Then I had the whole park all to myself!!!
The sun was shining, stiff breeze coming off Casco Bay and the temperature just right for doing lots of raking. I took a few minutes off to go down to the shore and just enjoy the beauty of the day. Our resident pair of osprey are back on their island, which it looks like they may be sharing with a pair of Canada geese. A pair of mergansers floated by, bracketed by eight great blue herons fishing in the shallow water. The gulls were swooping down and grabbing clams and then dropping them on the rocks to break open the shells, and the crows were doing mid-air acrobatics, just because they could. I had to pinch myself and whisper: "and they PAY me for this!"