Quite by chance (accident, actually) we drove by Constitution Gardens Sunday afternoon and from the street saw my old friend the great blue heron in the lake. We managed to find a parking place and rushed to the gardens, and he was still there, preening – not terribly far away, but far enough. All we had on us was our iPhones, which aren’t great for long-distance photography, but we tried using digital zoom (not ideal, I know), and this was the best picture we got. Now that we know he’s back – after not seeing him for a couple of years -- we’ll have to stop by the gardens again next week with some better cameras.

Garden décor in Milwaukie, Oregon, posted earlier: