Drive out to Bells Rapids at the top of the Swan and walk up to where it becomes the Avon. The water levels are way up on last time, with actual rapids and improvised trails where the river has flooded the banks and walkways. The main water is brown, as are most side puddles, but there are also little streams that tickle down valleys from the side, at right angels to the river, with water more clear. And yet, there are still many dead trees right by the river’s bank—like kwell(ilul) the skeoak, with its shallow roots. I guess many didn’t make it through the long, dry summer, and stand now dead, in or near the water.