The water was utterly still, glass-like, and the deepening sky reflected off its surface as the fog rose slowly and tumbled towards the shore.  The water made not a sound as the wind fizzled to a whisper, and the lake and the sky and the shore seemed as one, devoid of any…

  The leafless trees bore the sun’s rays in flickering bursts, like an old movie projector.  Each fleeting image accumulating, until the sun appeared whole before sinking behind the horizon.   The weather has been somewhat atypical and wholly unpredictable.  The biting cold recently displaced by more moderate temperatures and…