These two ducks make their home at the cemetery's irrigation pond. It's full of yucky water now so they have been hanging out at the stream.

Spring is in bloom everywhere here.

In case you didn't know, Hamilton68 is the main site for all-things-Russia hysterics.
To give a GOS reference: Hamilton 68: Putin apparently trying to incite American Civil War #2 (not kidding)

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My grandfather, who passed away last year, was a lifelong and thorough reader of the New York Times. You might say he was their core demographic: A quintessential New York Jew lawyer, one of the first Jews to be admitted to Harvard, whose life was oddly spared by the Red Scare inasmuch as when he was in the Army and the Korean War broke out, his affiliation in his younger days with certain left-wing groups caused the brass to deem him too much of a security risk to send overseas.

Technically Congress is the one with the power to say where our troops go and where they don't.
But that stopped being true several generations ago.

In place of Congress, the Commander-In-Chief gives the orders to the troops.

People want to be good. And life wants to be happy.

In Portsmouth was born a kitten blind and with an inoperable spinal condition that rendered his rear legs useless.

But he was adopted from the animal-shelter by a woman, and then students at a local school built him a wheelchair.

Because people want to be good.