April 11: Fish, tree, wind, petals

First an update: when I arrived at work this morning I checked the goldfish pool, a little nervous. The water level was high and the base was clear of algae and pennies. It was raining, so the surface was rough. Finally I located the fish, clustered together near the base of the tower column. Relief! They survived and they look nice and healthy. I had counted 12 recently, and I counted 11 today, so it's possible they're all there. (There's usually at least one little rascal that escapes my count.)

We had storms in the morning and as the sky cleared in the afternoon, wind picked up. The hackberry tree where I park is definitely leafed out now, which I noticed because of the way it was tossing in the wind. Trees don't do that when they've got no resistance; the wind goes right past their twigs and branches.



The azalea bushes are still covered in blossoms but there are pink or white carpets of blossoms on the ground beneath them too. When I pulled into my apartment parking lot, there were white wisps blowing across the pavement, almost like streamers of paper sand: the tiny laurel blossom petals.