Took a walk out to the lake, another lovely spring day. The ice is starting to melt back from the shoreline. I checked along the boat beach, and found a green frog sitting at the edge of the ice. Some chipmunks were scurrying about and a robin was singing. On the walk back out the laneway there were 3 flocks of midges flying about 4 feet above the snow.

The other springtime ritual witnessed along the way was the annual race-yer-snowmobile-over-the-open-water-at-Loughborough Lake. Flocks of people milling about on the bridge hoping to see one of the sleds stall out and sink, an assortment of vehicles lining both sides of the highway for almost a mile, cops aplenty, ride checks either side of the milling masses, and one enterprising person taking advantage of the whole gathering with his hotdog stand. I would have liked to have stopped and photographed these antics of Homo sapiens, but had my father and the dog with me, both of them tired and wanting to get home.