8) Close to Meadows: 

“I have seen whence came the expression, ‘the glassy surface of a lake.’  When you invert your head, it looks like a thread of finest gossamer stretched across the valley, and gleaming against the distant pine woods, separating one stratum of the atmosphere from another.  You would think that you could walk dry under it to the opposite hills, and that the swallows which skim over might perch on it.”

Right where the path meets Wyman Meadow, just before arriving at the cabin site, one can arrive at this view. The placid surface of the pond amazed me as the sun set behind the tree-line. Given the proximity to the cabin site, I was happy to be witnessing the same evening sky that Thoureau had enjoyed many years ago.

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