After the heavy rains, I'd gone back to the park and was photographing basking baby turtles when...didn't I notice familiar movement in the surface of the pond water?
Sure enough, the water level in the stream from the connecting pond on the other side of the other side of the park rose enough for carp to come up here again. I tried not to show it, but I was ecstatic. You just couldn't see the fish in the deeper murky pond--but here, where it's shallower, their shading differences were more apparent, scars/scratches/and fish scale groupings could be seen.
I could call my little swimming angels by name again! Besides, some were old friends, and I'd only have to name half a dozen or so. Panda, Fleck, Wavy, Mime Mime, & Kiss I already knew. Time to think of names. What a happy thing to have to do.
