On my walk in the neighborhood today, encountered….

The little old lady who is thankful for each day of sunlight in winter and says so as I walk by daily. Didn’t lose any plants yet, today she added.
Our old dentist next door retired, then died a year later-boredom I suppose, he was a people person, and helped people smile in more ways than one.
Now a gay couple lives there, they’ve already started fixing it up, but their flag is as big as the house.
Also saw my photographer friend who talked to me at length
About the necessary silence of seeing well! We get along.
On the warblers and albino squirrels are back
And the winter evergreen stand out today. Park is empty
But for the nervous girl who got a new puppy and is trying to figure the universe out in a new way.
She feels very potentially judged by everyone who walks past, so I make a wide berth so she’s not self conscious.
Next my musician friends who were on the road
And returned to busted pipes, yikes. Something is always
Going wrong with musicians.
Those musician’s houses always have creatures living in them (raccoons and possums most often round here)
You can hear it on their records.
Got to help the bass player fix his mainline pipe!
Then the old folks garden across the street
With the man from Chicago who yells out encouragements to all
Passing by, but in a tone which scares people…
He always tells me I’m smart, and that it is good I like so many people!
Glad he is still yelling out encouragements, at his age
And that Chi-town accent, I like too!
Then at the end, saw two hawks circling—those clever circling seers!
At the very end, my elderly neighbor who used to be a librarian
And still goes daily, and brings home another stack of books,
told me the sun will come out tomorrow son, don’t worry…..