Once again we are graced by the opportunity to witness one of life's most simple miracles with the return of the mother mallard duck and yesterday morning the hatching of her ten ducklings.
"I know nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything that is at once new and valuable-nothing so lightens and sweetens toil as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture for such discovery." -Abraham Lincoln