As my mother & I were driving through the countryside a few days ago, en route to one of our favorite area casinos, we saw a bald eagle take off near the roadside. It's hardly uncommon to glimpse these birds along our rural highways, but this seemed an interestingly close look.

The gambling, by the way, wasn't bad.

Might as well mention that, on this last day of March, I noticed one or two robins in the backyard. Come next morning's twilight, I could hear the species up to their old spring twittering.