#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream

Lake Winnipesaukee, Afternoon

But her power of enchantment is on us,

We bow to the spell which she weaves,

Made up of the murmur of waves

And the manifold whisper of leaves.

~ Excerpt from “Loon Point,” by Amy Lowell

Common Loon, Cornel Lab of Ornithology

A day of travel, courtesy of friends. An end of summer weekday getaway to Lake Winnipesaukee. Charlie gets a little walk to the river before we leave for the white mountains. What a gorgeous lake this is! I’ve never stayed on this lake before. The mountain views from the water are stunning. Frank got to water ski and I got my good swim in, late afternoon. Quite choppy, I swam into a cove and back. Ocean like, the wind stirring up the surface. A good, hard swim. Sweet to be in the body of water belonging to a lake I’ve never been in before. While we were out in the middle of this gigantic, scenic lake, we spotted the mother loon and her young one. We couldn’t get close enough for a great picture, but it was a sweet scene to watch: the mother fishing for her young one, a teaching moment. Dinner tonight outdoors on the lake with a view of the slivery moon, just the tiniest line in the sky; a falling moon, lowering itself into the lake on a dark and starlit sky.