Running a Muddy Trail
A Swimming Hole
{ 09:11, 23 June 2008 }
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Last week was the week of mothers. My Mom came to visit and she worked and worked and worked. We fixed her meals and cleaned her dishes and gave her a bed to sleep in, and in return she worked and worked and worked some more. We were very impressed ... and thankful.On Friday our supply of mothers doubled when Joel's Mom arrived. Both accompanied us to market on Saturday and both scored monster bunches of purple larkspur when one of the farmers decided to leave for the day.
After a week full of productivity and field work, we headed out for a gentler task on Sunday: visiting some friends, picking up a load of firebricks and taking a walk to the river. From Kate's hillside pottery studio (the location of the firebricks) we headed down the hill, after a cool and damp week, Sunday was warm, summery and sunny. The river was down since the heaviest rains were several days behind us now, so it was running fast enough that you knew it was a river, but slow enough to safely navigate on foot.
We went to The Rocks. An area of huge bolders scattered across the riverbed that form large eddies and deep holes. Kate and Tom came with us, as well as 7 of their dogs. We sat around talking on the rocks for some time before the call of the river and the sun on my back urged me on to more active pursuits. Off with the shoes and the shirt, I scampered across more of the rocks to join the dogs on the second-biggest bolder.
There, hidden on the far side of the boulder, was a perfectly clear, perfectly still pool and with the late morning sun just peeking over the top of the rock, the water was illuminated in concentric circles from the inside out. Joel jumped in first before I, for some reason, always hesitant to jump off rocks into water, made the leap.
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