Make Way

Eliot's preschool class celebrated spring and the work of Robert McCloskey by trekking to the duck pond at Crandall Park last week. All fourteen little ones hoofed it the 6/10 of a mile up Glen Road, holding hands and looking a bit like ducklings themselves.

Mrs. Hill handed a ziplock baggie stuffed with bread to each of her charges. The three families of ducks in the pond ate until they were stuffed, then swam frantically in the opposite direction as a horde of squealing preschoolers continued to hurl wads of Wonder Bread at their waggling tail feathers.

It was a brisk and sunny morning. The weeping willows swayed their scarves over the water, turning their leaves in the light.