Walden Pond has been transformed by the 84 degree weather today. There are fishermen everywhere along the shoreline. (Apparently yesterday's boats were stocking it with rainbow trout.) There is a group of young men playing music and hitting rocks into the pond with sticks. There are mothers with little children playing on the beach, a large extended Chinese family walking along the path, a couple sitting on the water's edge. Pete and I took a canoe out after our walk. It was great to be on the water again. We saw two 3-ft orange carp in Thoreau's cove! A woman joined us on the water doing yoga on a stand-up paddleboard. Another woman appeared in a kayak. We had a picnic lunch on the shoreline. Two men jumped into the water. Briefly. The pond came alive with people today, all enjoying the outdoors in their own way.
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