Patterns in the River

Water over stone

Patterns ever changing



Sunshine and shadows

Blue sky reflections.




Wild mint by the shoreJoe Pye weed color



Cardinal flower adds a pleasing red

And rarity.




Blue bottle gentian

Respectfully nodding

From under the sweet fern



And the river still tumbles over stones

Unchanged and unchanging.


And they say, don’t look back .


but we always take one more look.


Jane Neale



May 16, 2004