Paddling their own canoe

SILENCE deep rules o'er the waters,
Calmly slumb'ring lies the main,
While the sailor views with trouble
Nought but one vast level plain.
Not a zephyr is in motion!
Silence fearful as the grave!
In the mighty waste of ocean
Sunk to rest is ev'ry wave. 
Johann Wolfgang von Geothe


Not a zephyr at all as I went in to get the paper this morning, just luminous silvery blues.  Can you see the canoe? And the seat? And the steps? 
Working on the talk interspersed with some companionable gardening!
And just finished the book on Bach's Cello Suites - fascinating stuff. Did you know A Whiter Shade of Pale is based on one of the Cello suites - damn I've forgotten which one, but it seems to go with Goethe!