A summer day. A small river, crystal clear, flows through a wooded pasture in the Danube marshlands. A lush carpet of submersed plants undulates gently in the current. Along the stream I found guelder rose bushes, spindle trees, rowanberries, and a few scattered sunflowers. I stripped the seeds from the blowsy sunflowers, loaded the heads with the berries I had gathered, and floated them on the water. - Nils Udo