Richard

Cool, cool lake

Sunday, 9. August 2009, 01:38:25

heat, cool, Lake Nipigon, photography, Ontario

Lake Nipigon

It's a fiendishly hot day here in St. Louis, quite enough to inhibit me from going out. So instead I think of cool summer places I've visited at some time or another and this is one. From 2007 on our trip to Ontario, I spent far too little time at this beautiful lake. Just an hour or two walking the shoreline by this little jetty on a very windy warm (but not hot) summer day.

That year's trip to Ontario has special meaning for me thanks to the remoteness of wonderful places like this. I always enjoy the road less traveled than the familiar tourist destinations.

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Comments

Stardancer # 9. August 2009, 01:57

I love this photo, Richard. You can actually see the wind blowing.

Well done.

Dacotah # 9. August 2009, 02:15

L2D2 # 9. August 2009, 04:00

I agree, Richard. My Dad used to just choose a backroad and we would follow it to places off the beaten track. It was great.

L2D2 # 9. August 2009, 04:01

As often as not, we would get lost. Then Daddy would grin and say "We're not lost---I am just taking a short cut." Good memories.

Richard # 9. August 2009, 04:46

Glad you like the photo, Star - yes, it does capture that windy day well.

Thank you, too, Carol and Linda, for your comments - those do sound like great memories, Linda!

Matthew # 10. August 2009, 00:03

I think I would have figured out how to spend more than a couple of hours. It's really quite beautiful.

L2D2 # 10. August 2009, 01:13

I would be sitting in that gazebo with a rod and reel, fishing.

Edward Piercy # 10. August 2009, 01:59

You know it's strange but I hate being in the water (i.e. swimming) but I very much like being on the water in a boat.

L2D2 # 10. August 2009, 04:17

What a coincidence===me too Edward. I never learned to swim, and it scares me to be in water much over my waist. But not scared in a boat, and I would paddle across a lake on an air mattress or inner tube. Love boats.

Edward Piercy # 10. August 2009, 17:43

Yeah I can't swim either. Of course I think it was my aversion to water that was the cause of me never learning, not the other way around. When my mom took me and my sister one summer to the local swimming pool for swimming lessons, it was like torture. And after a few lessons I just refused for her to spend any more of her little money on something I hated.

My mom has always loved swimming and being in the water. I guess it just never occurred to her...

PS my sister did like the swimming -- she's little Picses fish.

L2D2 # 10. August 2009, 18:28

My mom was always scared of water and she seems to have passed that gene to me (or I caught her fear at a very early age.)

I lived in a little town called White Oak. The school was very rich with oil money, and they provided a lot of perks for the kids there. One was that they gave free swimming lessons starting at 5 years of age.

So, I sent my son to learn to swim. The next day I urged him to go to his next lesson. He said, "Mom, I don't need any more lessons. I already know how to swim." The next time he went, he dived off the high diving board.

He learned in one lesson and has always swam like a fish.

I am like you, rather be ON the water than IN the water.

Edward Piercy # 10. August 2009, 18:32

Richard # 11. August 2009, 03:20

Fascinating personal histories!

I can swim and like it (even though I don't do it that often) and I like being in boats too. Considering I have fallen off more than one, this is probably a good combination.

Edward Piercy # 11. August 2009, 03:42

Well I think a good riverboat pirate should swim. Definitely.

L2D2 # 11. August 2009, 04:45

Amen. Never know when they might have to walk the plank.

Stardancer # 11. August 2009, 05:13

My dad taught me how to swim by taking me out in a boat on the lake nearby--250 feet deep water--and just throwing me in.

Worked.

L2D2 # 11. August 2009, 07:07

My first husband did that to me----didn't work. I panicked and almost drowned as well as having a near heart attack. Have avoided being in water above my waist since then and refuse to let anyone near me when I am in the water.

Stardancer # 11. August 2009, 20:09

I was just a kid, Linda. Kids ain't skeered a' nuttin'.

Brave. Stupid.

Take your pick.