With the melting snow, spring is not only in the air, but in our streams and rivers as well.

Today, I’m up here at the U.S./Canadian border to check out some of the smaller tributaries flowing into the Rainy River. It’s so nice to see the water flowing again! I was up here last fall, and, after a long, dry summer, this particular stream had been reduced to a trickle.

As the laughing waters come gushing out of the woods, it reminds me of the ebb and flow of life. We were born of water, so it’s no wonder we have an affinity with streams and rivers. Life is very much a river.

As I stand here overlooking the run-off, it is so beautiful that I feel my own stream overflowing.

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silent all winter

the babbling brook now becomes

a roaring river

–Photos by me