floor show

An Achilles tendon injury has placed my husband on the couch with his foot up. Ice has been involved, and a heating pad by turns. It tends to flare and heal so that he is alternately, immobile, hobbling, limping, or gingerly walking.
On the weekend, while he was in a gingerly walking stage, we struck off for Aldergrove Lake Park.
We took lawn chairs and parked ourselves on a grassy rise overlooking the water.
Dragon flies patrolled the pond edge.
A turtle on a log was using solar power to plan its afternoon. 
An aggressive red-winged blackbird was the floor show though, as it chased cedar wax wings off of the bull rushes, and out of the reeds and away from the shrubs and out of the trees. Its flute-like, reedy call shrilled over and over.
Bullfrogs added the lower notes and our ears hummed with the sound of a thousand bees on the wild rose and blackberry blossoms.