Mac eggs, Home exit stream

On my to-do list was a crack-of-dawn trek up Lantern Hill with a group of celebrants who would watch the Westerly Morris Men dance a sunrise welcome to the vernal equinox. But when I got up at the right, dark time, it was in the low 20s, I had a mountain of writing to do, and, truth be told, I simply wimped out. I'm getting old—or maybe, at long last, just responsible. Later, however... and after I'd finished one deadline project... I rewarded myself with a walk to celebrate spring in my own way. The best discovery of the trek took place at a local vernal pool in which I located a recently deposited collection of Spotted Salamander eggs. For reasons that are not entirely clear to scientists, Macs lay three different kinds of egg masses: clear, translucent, and opaque. Here are two of the three possibilities—a visual tribute to this season of rebirth and renewal.