More Madonna, Less Jesus

Current San Lorenzo River

We’re having a very nice storm this afternoon, so I thought I’d go out and take a look at the river. I like to do this during storms, not because I’m afraid that it will flood (it might, but I’m not afraid of that) but because sometimes interesting stuff is floating down it. All kinds of things come down that river. This one morning several years ago, on my way to work, I saw an elephant. I literally could not believe my eyes, but there was an elephant floating in the river. I could clearly see the trunk, head, and ear. It was several hundred yards up stream, so I ran closer to it as it came toward me. As it came closer and closer I thought it looked more an more like an elephant, but it could not, COULD NOT be an elephant, a baby elephant, in the San Lorenzo river. Finally, it floated past me, and I saw that it was a giant stuffed toy elephant, indeed.

No elephants today.