This year’s loon family, as pictured via my iPhone. Surely, they deserve a better camera! But you get the idea, and our lake community gets VERY excited when a baby loon arrives.

With any luck, life is full of simple pleasures that are free. Lake Owasso’s loons provide a favorite example, as we lakers go gaga watching the female and male arrive (separately) after their winter getaway. Then they build a next. Then we wait…and wait. And then—on a good and lucky year—a baby loon pops out…and survives! So far, it’s a great year. And we watch and listen to them every day, hoping that time will move slowly before they fly away in the fall.