Lee Thomson

Apr 16
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

It started out an eclipse, but you had to see the sun, so it became a partial eclipse, but the corona (one of my favorite words) is still there. it even sounds like the name of a coin, ony maybe spelled differently (koruna? kuruna?).

If I had my way, I’d put morning glories or stars on pennies. I wonder if the number of pennies in circulation is more or less than the number of stars  in the sky? We were sorting them, the pennies, not the stars, this morning, looking for one for each year each of the girls had been alive. We seem to be short of odd numbered years, particularly 2003. Go figure. 1988 is remarkably well represented.

I leave you with an image of the river rising. We have had bucketing rain for the last >36 hours, and the river is going up. That is always exciting.

Alice and I were at the barn this morning dealing with mud and flooding and sopping wet and filthy ponies. She cleaned her first stall (I’m so proud!) and had a nice lesson on a cheerful little fjord pony named Elda. I stooged around doing everything else, and didn’t get to ride at all. Clearly we need to work out the kinks in this plan, because part of the deal we should BOTH get to ride, especially if we both clean stalls. ahem.