Unlike yesterday's album cover image of a yellowjacket, I pulled out a CD whose cover illustrations of birds draw me right into the music. I'd also hoped that the thoughtful Celtic vocals of Niamh Parsons on her "Blackbirds & Thrushes" CD would calm my cat, Collette, down. Collette was running amuck this afternoon, switching her tail and leaping from place to place.
Collette finally calmed down halfway through the CD. I think it was the strong cover of "The Water Is Wide" that did it. I suspect that Collette heard, as I did, why its lyrics hold up and why there are so many versions of it.
On the other hand, maybe Collette was just tired.
