Lost Pond Trail - 2001
Lost Pond Trail - Driftwood and Lily Pads in Lost Pond
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Sitting beside a boulder at the edge of Lost Pond, we look over the mirror like water that reflects the blue sky - taking away the haze and heat and leaving only clarity. Driftwood - the remains of stumps and branches - brown with age and perhaps tannin from the pond water, poke upward like abstract sculptures, contrasted with the opposite forms of the curved water lily pads.
Lost Pond is over 12,000 years old [Late Quaternary History of the White Mountains... Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal], lined with layer after layer of ancient leaves. Probably only those from recent decades contribute to the color, but it is still fascinating to think of this place looking much the same as when the ice sheet was receeding across the continent.
7/23/2001
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Related
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| Directissima / Glen Boulder / Lost Pond Loop |
| Lake or Pond |
| Beauty Shots |
| Driftwood |
| Lost Pond Trail - 2001 |
