Around noon, I enjoyed a companionable walk along the marsh on Glenwood with a sora before she ditched me for the cattails. A great egret broke from the brush and flew over to the edge of the settlement ponds on the West edge of Wirth Lake. Up ahead at the intersection of Glenwood and Theodore Wirth Parkway, a utility truck flushed a deer that ran up the trail along Wirth Lake. Even so, when I walked up that same path a short time later, it was I who startled the lingering solitary and spotted sandpipers in the settlement ponds into flight.
All of this, less than a five minute drive from downtown Minneapolis. Do we live in a great state or what? Kathy Connelly Golden Valley Hennepin County
