Peter, you are absolutely right. Or perhaps not. Maybe, when you left that scene, it simply ceased to exist. Maybe it was your presence - your consciousness - that brought that lake into existence for at that time. As little and puny as human beings seem, as you stand there in the face of NATURE, we do paticipate. We do have aour place. We do belong. Perhaps if we felt a little more secure in this, we would not feel the need to dominate our surroundings - to try to force nature to yield to our hand (a pointless, hopeless endeavour at best).

If a tree falls in the woods, and you're not there to hear it. . .

Thank you once again for bringing that lake into existence in my world.