1. Dawn 2. Drought 3. The Log Jam

In these few stories about a rural river community, the threads that tie human life to the subtleties of a landscape - the prolonged arrival of dawn, the otherness of wild animals, the austere movement of a river - become clear. The stories are taken from the book, River Notes: The Dance of Herons, by Barry Lopez. The collaboration of its author with the cellist, David Darling, was arranged by Mickey Houlihan and the recordings were made in April, 1981, outside Boulder, Colorado