Beauty

North Burlington, N44 30 W73 15

(08/22/05) I find myself alone tonight. Libby went back to NY to fetch her car and to work on the house a little bit. I also find
myself back on the mooring at North Burlington. I just watched the sunset. Once again the beauty of the view from here stuns me.
The weather today was fall-like. Huge cumulus clouds filled much of the sky leaving big blue breaks for sunshine. The lake creates
a microclimate so that there are fewer clouds directly above the lake than above the surrounding shores. That allows one to see
distant cumulus clouds from their bases to their tops. Some clouds create vertical walls 20,000 feet high. They look spectacular.
One day I saw a wall of cloud on the western shore that created a virtual cliff face 40,000 feet high.

An hour before sunset, the sun brightly illuminated some of the mountain slopes in the Adirondacks. They shone bright green while
the shaded slopes were gray. As the sun set, I could see streamers of mist rising from the mountains colored pink by the sunset.

On the shore, little kids swam unsupervised. That surprised me. Their parents must have great confidence in their water skills.
There were two men throwing sticks into the water for their dogs to fetch. There was a woman with a camera on a tripod taking
sequential pictures of the progress of the sunset.

I stopped at a marina on the New York side before returning to the mooring and chatted a little with the nice young woman there. I
said, "You have such a beautiful place to work here." She replied, "Thanks for reminding me. Sometimes, I forget to look." Now
that would make an excellent slogan to hang on the wall, "Don't forget to look," or better still, "LOOK"

On a different note, I pulled a dumb stunt today. I tried to hook the dinghy anchor line with the boat hook, but the line was too
taught and it yanked the boat hook right out of my hands and into the lake. Darn. That was an all aluminum boat hook and probably
more rugged than any replacement I'll be able to buy.