Friday, May 20, 2016

The River Wakes Up


Good Morning Gina

A beautiful Friday up-river: enough warmth to create a sheen of fog over the chill of the water and cool enough for the grass to hold beads of moisture that glisten in the rising sun at 6:30.




 Turning and looking west -- away from the river -- you can just make out the brood mare stables through the mist, on top and to the slight right of the statue.


In this secluded bubble -- before getting paper or going online -- there's a strong sense of All's Right with the World. It is annoyingly adult to remember that -- recalling Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" -- the experienced eye knows trouble can lurk right beneath the placid river surface.


So, in celebration of and to begin to complete the beauty of a day like today, shall we pledge to significant forward steps on the PCB clean-up and return of Champlain Canal to full use? I hope so.


Many thanks,


Dan
HOORAY EPA -- thank you!