Rising water from Thursday's rain and a northwest wind reshaped the surface today. The river flowed over most of my marker log, with one tip just out of the water, and a damp border to show the higher point where the stream had reached not long before.
Lately, the shallower water along both banks seemed barely to flow at all. How else could robins take leisurely baths? Today the river moves from bank to bank. Closer looks show there is still a difference. The central current move more swiftly. Then, as the river narrows, the differing hydraulics collide and merge, creating the impression of a moving pot on low boil. The wind swirls down from Mt. Tom, creating its own eddies, one succeeding another, overlapping and disappearing.
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