Saturday, October 15, 2016

Sand Lake

For us, the 'North Woods', with its lichens, fungi and birds, is backed by Sand Lake itself.  We've swum in it and canoed across it during the summer, admired it in the fall, and skiid or snowshoed across it in the winter.  On the three days we were there we enjoyed more of its moods.

It rained on the day we arrived, and the sun rose the second morning behind dark clouds.  We wondered what the day would be like.

But shortly the clouds dispersed, and the sun shone sparkling across the silver lake.

A very different Blueberry Island from the foggy image on day one!  Note a little bit of colour starting among the trees on the far slope.

We walked the entire shore of the bay we were in, right down to the west corner with the shallow water and the reeds (probably actually a rush species if I stopped to identify it).

By the middle of the day we had a pretty typical view of the lake from the path leading down from the cottage.

This by the way, was the view out the back window of our camper van.  Not too bad for our first adventure!

The next morning the sun rose behind clouds again, but the blue sky promised another beautiful fall day, which it was.  Another enjoyable trip to the north woods.


13 comments:

  1. A visit to a piece of heaven by the look of it! Gorgeous!

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  2. Gotta love travelling in the camper van, looks like you are enjoying it!

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  3. Lovely! And so much more to come. I'm enjoying it all. :-)

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  4. I could live there, so beautiful, in every season.

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  5. A wonderful place to visit. Wishing you many more adventures to come!

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  6. what a beautiful place, you captured some wonderful moments in time!! the 5th image and last image were favorites...but the view out the back of the camper wasn't bad either!!!

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  7. Love your photos of the sky over this lake!

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  8. What a gorgeous place to spend time in.

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  9. Gorgeous photos - especially love the island and the reeds.

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  10. Lovely place! You got some spectacular clouds!

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