An excellent summer day in the north; they are counting loons on the local lakes but we found none on our early morning visit to the closest one. One can hear loons calling out in their entertaining and eerie songs and tweets in the morning and later at night. Here, there is a solitary water lilly in the middle of a dramatic reflection of a bank of trees along the shore

A clump of four maples rise to the sky in this black and white image.