After work, I took the dog over to the WPA Rock Garden and the pond adjacent to it.  Things are starting to wake up in the garden, but it still has a way to go before it’s at its most impressive.  There were a lot of hug Jack-in-the-Pulpit flowers in bloom: huge purple hoods with a thick blackish-purple stamen sticking up from the middle of them.  I think they’re neat flowers.  All of their “sex organs” are down inside the base of the flower and look sort of alien.  And when the flower’s “hood” wilts and dies away, it’s replaced by a stalk covered with bright red seeds.  So cool-looking…

At the pond I watched and followed a Green Heron for a while.  I saw him catch something, but I’m not sure what it was.  Then he licked his “lips” with a long wormlike tongue.  I also came across two of the Cormorants again; an adult and a juvenile.  They were standing on either side of a fountain, like bookends, under the fountain’s spray.  Then the younger one moved off to another location before they both went fishing…

The dog and I walked for about 2 hours and then headed back home.