Egret of Walden

The white birds flew south. One of them was born here. Ponds keep their promises.The heron's child hatched on Walden's pond, learned to stand in Walden's shallows, and circled the water three times before following its family south. The bullfrogs say it wasn't saying goodbye. It was memorizing.Now winter is coming to Walden Reach, and everyone is deciding what to hold onto. Evan has carried his boxes out of one life and into another, which humans call commitment. Mara is watching him do it with the eye of a woman who has already counted the silverware. There's a wedding coming in a March snowstorm, an empty nest keeping watch from the sycamore, and a whole town learning that nothing that returns is ending.Told with the wry help of the pond's bullfrog chorus, The Egret of Walden is an uplifting small-town story of second chances, late-life love, winter weddings, and the stubborn hope of spring — a warm, funny novel about grief, renewal, and coming home.Book 3 of the Bullfrogs of Walden Novels. The frogs remain unpaid.