While Stanford officially no longer considers Lake Lagunita a recreational lake, recreational users usually make their way to the large body of water on campus during the spring term. This year there have been more bonfires and left behind beer cans than boats. Maybe the weather has been a factor; it’s hardly been balmy boating weather.

This morning the Dawn Jogger spotted the first rowboat of the season, tethered along the banks of the quickly receding lake. It was always the chosen spot for a duck family – dad, mom and two almost teenage ducklings. A nice late spring scene on cloudy but rainless morning…