Rain and Flow

 

I wrote yesterday of the local dance of raindrops, rings and ripples.  The river has a minute, yet real, part in the great dance performed by the water of our Earth.  The hydrologic cycle, which swings round at a variety of tempos, both feeds and drains the Ottauquechee.   Wikipedia tells us, "The water moves from one reservoir to another, such as from river to ocean, or from the ocean to the atmosphere, by the physical processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and subsurface flow."

When it is raining, we see before our eyes a tight arc of the circle: precipitation out of the clouds, the runoff that is the river.  At moments like this morning's, when I took the picture, we see pieces of the great cycle, above and below.  The clouds reflected on the water simply await the next steps of the dance. Like familiar partners, they they are in time with one another before they touch..