Roots cross my path. Small birds cheep and hop in the crackling undergrowth.

After a cold spring that felt endless this year, including a baby blizzard in April, suddenly the Island landscape is lush and dabbed with color like a painter’s palette.

Fifty-eight years ago, on May 10, 1963, Bob Dylan performed a concert at Brandeis University in Waltham.

I hold the trunk close. Cherry blossoms kiss my face. Dew shines in the grass.

When I learned that Peter Herrmann had died recently, I thought about the smiles, laughs and fun times he had inspired.