The River

Gosh, I just love the Cedar River.. the other morning, Fritz and I were out walking and I thought I saw some fish swimming....sure enough...they are on their way down from where they were born and on their way to Lake WA and eventually on their way to Puget Sound....and two years from now they will be on their way up-stream to start the process all over again.

Then I spied six baby ducklings swimming around with their mom....was that ever cute!!! I had seen several males (drakes?) but no females, Evidently the males are not too hot about the little ones because they peck at them and toss them around,....The mom fights back and the chase is on....away from the babies.....They run down the river, fly up over the trees , land back on the river and fly some more,,,...the male chasing her all the time. But she comes back to her brood and steers them back to their hiding place....so sweet...

So...while that was going on, I heard a helicopter and looked up and saw it was hovering over the river....and circling around the area of the senior center down "stream" then a fire truck came by sirens and lights going.... found out later that a body was found floating in the river down by the senior center....It was a man who had been missing for a few hours.

Granted not all of our walks are this interesting.....but I wanted to get it all down so I didn't forget anything!!

A quiet week coming up....have a good one!!