By William Butler Yeats
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty swans.
The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?
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My Thursday was pretty uneventful. Paul worked from home, so the cats spent a lot of time pacing back and forth between my computer and his, hoping one of us would decide it was time to feed them. I made the horrifying discovery that I can't upload NEF files to Flickr, and I have dozens that have not been converted to JPGs, though I shoot pretty much all quickie travel photos as JPGs, so I tracked down a NEF-to-JPG program to start working on that (I'm more than halfway through 2010, past the baby bird.)
Adam had a cross country meet today that was originally not on the schedule because he was supposed to run on Tuesday but it was canceled due to weather; he ran a 5K in less than 19 minutes, so he was very happy. We put on Glee late and couldn't figure out why we were watching at all, then put on Elementary, which again I enjoyed; I am never going to adore a straight-up mystery show, it's just not my genre, but I like the actors and the pacing. Some Bubble Factory photos from Ellicott City:
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