Protective parents
A dogwood tree in bloom
This oak seemed to glow as I walked under it.
Typical Boston apartment building
New caterpillars!
Poison Ivy
Look Dad - sunblock!
Hampton Beach, New Hampshire
Did you know that geese are like dogs?
It's true. They wag their tongues when they're hot. Just like dogs.
Greg and I went to a restaurant with a couple friends. Almost the whole menu is fried food. Here's the fried haddock and fried clams plates, each with french fries and onion rings.
Goslings
This papa goose was trying to remove some non-family members. A loud chase ensued, with lots of squawking.
A robin
Turtles sunning themselves
The first goslings have finally arrived! I guess the geese usually have more than one gosling at a time, and they are usually out earlier in the season. I wonder what's going on...
The starlings were brown in the fall, but now they're black with brown flecks. Several roost in the air shaft outside my windows, and Billy loves to watch them.
Billy also loves watching pigeons. They make a low, guttural noise that must sound romantic to other pigeons. In the early morning, it's like Wild Kingdom right outside my windows, with birds flying in and out. Billy is not understimulated.
The show's over for the flowering trees; almost all of the petals have fallen off. What remains is green leaves, which are lovely, except compared to the flowers. I never thought I'd see lush green leafy trees as plain. However, that sentiment is already fading, and I can appreciate the brief flowering time, then start to see the leaves as terrific, too. Suddenly, there's shade where there wasn't before. And now other flowers and bushes are starting to bloom.
I guess these geese are still waiting for their goslings.
Spring Green is the bright color the leaves are when they're brand new. Soon the leaves will turn a more mild green. But for now, they're electric.
Not all of the leaves turn green in the spring. These (below) are red maples, and their leaves are sort of a swampy brown.
If brides planned it right and had their weddings when the flowering trees are losing their petals, they wouldn't need flower girls.
Below is a pink dogwood tree.
There's a small neighborhood park near my apartment. Below, a girl was playing the guitar and singing You Are My Sunshine.
Here's a Japanese maple.
More pink dogwood
The stacker garages are very cool. The first car pulls into the spot and is elevated about five feet. Then the second car slides in beneath it. If you need your car before the car beneath you leaves, the garage attendants get the car keys (left in a lock box) and move the bottom car out, then lower your car for you. It's a brilliant use of vertical space.
Look at the size of this worm!
Pollen is lining all of the cars (and everything else) these days. I don't think I'm allergic to it. 
Riding bikes in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire
I sent my moms and grandmothers flowers for Mother's Day. (Here I am picking them - I just squished them into greeting cards.)
People laying on the grass of the HMS Quad
