Clear on Clear

With this long string of clear days and the resulting drop in the level of the Ottauquechee, the life on the river seems more intense.  The insect skimmers skate on the river's surface tension by the hundreds.  Humans find all kinds of ways of getting into the water:  swimming, wading, tubing.  Birds dive in or paddle or drink from the nearly still waters below the bridge.  The images over the past two weeks have been remarkably similar, varying some as the stream shrinks.