Hi everyone,

Yesterday, Beth and I stopped at William Tricker's, the pond garden
center in Independence (Cuyahoga Cty) that we enjoy visiting every
once in a while. Needed a couple of things for our small back-yard
pond. Last year and this we have started to wish it could be larger,
as for the first time we're being visited regularly by a Red-winged
Blackbird or two, and have fantasies of a nest...well, pure fantasy.

At tricker's, we walked through their greenhouse, which is mostly
open tanks of exotic water lilies, papyrus, and various other plants.
Nothing we'd put into our native-plant pond, but fun to look at. What
we saw there, a bit of Spring under the glass that was being pelted
by a mid-April snowfall (ugh), was a damselfly--an Eastern Forktail.

So despite the return of cold, rain and snow, we do think Spring is
really around the corner.

Beth wishes,


Steve Cagan
Cleveland Heights

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