Checking in with the Lake Riley Heron

The Lake Riley Heron's empire as it appears from the bank.
Note him, surveying the area from atop the small bouy in the center
of the lake (and photo).
For the second consecutive week, I stopped by Lake Riley at nearby Cobbs Hill Park on my way home from getting coffee to see if the Heron was home. It was a little later in the morning this weekend and there was already a fair degree of activity in the park, with the baseball diamond adjacent to the "lake" beginning to fill with teenagers for what appeared to be a summer league game. This did not seem to bother the Lake Riley Heron, who by this time is likely used to all the hubbub that comes with hanging around a popular tanning-playing-hanging body of artificial water.

Eventually the sun breaks through the momentarily overcast
skies to reveal our subject in a bright light.
Breathe in, breathe out… YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!