Mosaic Monday #45: Morning Glory

Do you ever wake up and wonder what the day will bring?  You might run through your 'tasks' for the day and form a general expectation for the next 24 hours.  And then there are days that take you by surprise, from the very beginning.  Today* was one of those days.  The morning started easily enough - I had a kayak date with Dear Neighbor Friend.  In my mind, I soon labeled it Morning Glory.

Mist skimmed the fields as we navigated 5 farm gates between us and access to the lake.  An unfamiliar person could easily become disoriented and lose her way in this fog.  Normal objects suddenly loomed and took on mystical proportions.  

At one point, Dear Neighbor Friend leaned over and peered at something near the ground.  "What is it?" I queried, thinking of the young skunk we had seen not far from this spot on a previous outing.  "A spider web," she said.  Night-time dew bestowed pearls of water along every angle of the web.  I am sure spiders have spun webs in these same locations before, but without the bedazzle, they are readily overlooked.

The mist had begun to lift as we launched our kayaks, but there was still enough about to lend a mysterious aspect to the lake.

At a time like this, you can imagine yourself in Loch Ness, Scotland, with the mist swirling, and a lone piper high on the moors.  And the Loch Ness monster rising from the deep - but wait, it is only a merganser - yikes - our imaginations are getting the better of us!  (Dear Neighbor Friend told me about kayaking with a friend in similar conditions, and encountering the merganser in the mist.  I may have embellished the story a little …)

Can you see the wee duck in the top center of the photo?

We greeted the solitary bald eagle roosting at the far end of the lake, and speculated aloud what might have happened to the other half of the pair and the fledgling.  We reversed course, and quite soon the sun had burned off the remaining wispy clouds.  Dew lingered on the webs, and with the sun piercing the watery prisms, a thousand mini-rainbows colored the landscape.

That's what I call Morning Glory.

*This post was written on Thursday, September 12.

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