Quote of the Day (William Cullen Bryant, on a “Weedy Lake” for Waterfowl)

“Seek'st thou the plashy brink

Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,

Or where the rocking billows rise and sink

On the chafed ocean side?”—William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), “To a Waterfowl”

(Photo taken at the Wild Duck Pond in Saddle River County Park, Ridgewood, N.J.)