5) Snow Across: 

“This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore…Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.  These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface.”

There was little wind this day, but whenever a small breeze ran across the pond’s surface, ripples appearing slight and playful, and disappearing as quickly as they came, and the surface returning to its glassy state.  As you can see from this photograph, it snowed the day before at Walden Pond.  The snow, however, can almost exclusively be seen from one side of the pond, while other parts of the bank are sandy, as you saw before.  Viewing this contradiction between snow and beach, dry and wet, enlarged my perception of the pond, knowing I could stand on both mediums in one day. 

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