MidSummer

July 16th already?! Summer half over.  There was more activity on the river than any other evening thus far. A young couple in a canoe; a younger couple in kayaks (he talked about Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. she had a dark red flower patterned tattoo on her right arm) and then further upstream two mid-aged guys fishing in a canoe. Three boys were jumping off a stump and swimming on the river's edge. 
(It's strange; I never feel alone when I'm alone on the river. I only feel alone when I encounter several others.)
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Thrilled to get this shot of a grey heron, as I've seen him often but have been unable to capture him (susan sontag talked of how war-like photographic terms are... aim, shot, capture, shoot, etc.) in a picture until now.  It had been perched in a high tree branch and took flight as I floated near. Water birds are gracefully beautiful and regal.

 Does this picture look as hot, humid and still as it actually was tonight?  The sounds:  birds, toads

 Two more of my favorite kayak visitors. So lacy and light looking.

 A Tao passage.

 Johann put it another way, 'Don't Cling.' Clinging; attachment; inability to let go; non-acceptance of what is: these all cause suffering. 
Conversely, acknowledging and accepting the impermanence of all that is leads to freedom from attachment; which opens the possibility of living in a state of peace. 


Cool stuff. 


Happy mid-summer's night's dreams all.