After all the rain yesterday, it was really a relief to us all to see the sun this morning. It made the autumnal trees in the backyard shimmer and shine.

The Boy and I decided to wander down to the stream to see what it looked like after such a long, heavy rain. I thought the little island we’d built up earlier this year might well be gone with that volume of water rushing through.

What we saw instead was that the tree that had fallen into the creek had been washed downstream a significant distance — thirty or so feet.

And our island was completely gone — it couldn’t withstand the several-hundred-pound tree’s attack.