After a long and dreary winter, recent stunning sunrises have heralded warming weather that summoned the daffodils to emerge in the neighborhoods surrounding the BRC domicile. The Bradford Pear trees soon issued their snowy blooms along the streets around our lake, and the tulip trees, a BRC favorite, began to unfold their blooms.
At a pre-Easter weekend performance, the G&F musicians entertained the residents of a local retirement home with uplifting tunes and cheerful sing-alongs. One of the clients, seated below with the microphone, had some experience in show business and served as the MC fronting the band.
One of the most convincing indicators of Springtime in the Heartland is the return to our waterways of Great Blue Herons that had wintered in the South- probably near the warm environs of a mangrove swamp. These magnificent avians reappear in the same neighborhood each year, and below is seen the arrival of a solitary and travel-weary heron as its scouts along the treetops on our far shoreline searching for the familiar terrain of the grassy dam near the BRC backyard.
Although summer cannot be far away, cold rains and March winds have buffeted us this past month. A Springtime sunset last week perched a rainbow over the BRC lake framing it along the same far shoreline that greeted the above Great Blue Heron reconnoitering our familiar landscape.
From the BRC: Wishing you sunshine and balmy days soon.
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