walk.

on friday, i had lunch with my friend c, who's on maternity leave from the symphony. she hasn't had her baby yet (to my knowledge), but her due date was on friday. first time babies almost never show up when they're supposed to! anyway, she looked really good for being about to pop any minute, and it was nice to talk "baby" & get caught up.
after i finished teaching, j & i went for a walk around commonwealth lake. he just happened to bring the camera with him, and there just happened to be several interesting things to photograph. we saw some big geese that looked like turkeys due to the thing on their necks (perhaps those were the males?), saw a blue heron, and saw a poor female duck get practically gang-banged by 4-5 other ducks. the last one was pretty disturbing. at first we thought they were fighting over a fish, but then we saw a duck's neck under the water. the poor thing finally made it to shore, but they kept biting its neck, trying to beat it into submission. i'm so glad i'm not a duck!