Water into Blood

Moses confronts Pharaoh at the Nile River, demanding, in the name of God, that the monarch let the people of Israel go.  Pharaoh refuses.

The book of Exodus, chapter 7:  "In the sight of Pharaoh and of his officials, [Moses] lifted up the staff and struck the water in the river, and all the water in the river was turned into blood, and the fish in the river died.  The river stank so that the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt."

If for different reasons, the scene.paints a painfully familiar picture.

In the early evening tonight, on a hot day, a ten-foot two by six piece of lumber with one smaller piece sticking out a right angles floated down river and round the bend.

I walked downstream to the next bridge to see if I could spy its progress.  It had disappeared.  I took thhe picture below, looking back upstream as the light faded.  Kids were swimming just under the bridge.