Patrons of MOMA, rather than the National Gallery of Art would enjoy a walk today on the Mendenhall Wetlands. A low marine layer cuts off mountain views and migrating fog obscures the horizon. The gray simplifies, allowing appreciation of contrasting shapes: grass collapsed by cold then woven by tides, snake like channels delivering runoff to Gasteneau Channel, mud formed into fish scale shapes by tidal flow,  the simple geometry of the Number 17 navigation marker where two bickering bald eagles roost. We cross the curving channels and approach Number 17. One eagle flies off, setting a chain reaction in motion as he flies toward a gang of Canada geese that rise in an alarm. startling geese a mile away from the eagle.