Do you know what type of bird house that is on the opposite side? It is shaped much like several I can think of but we also have bat houses here that are similar. Outstanding, relaxing and alive shot.

Wonderful capture Jodie.

Beautiful capture Jodie.. it looks like fall has arrived up your way already, enjoy it.

Beautiful lake Wish I had the dollars to go there to escape for a few days Excellent presentation A fav with me...and ty for your comments on my new one as well Hugs Susan~

Stellar quasi ethereal-like effects in the capture of this Loonsong scene, Jodie.

this is wonderful shot

Wonderful image, excellent mood with the fog!

Lovely scene and capture!

The soft colors are beautiful, as well as the misty secrecy of life going to sleep.

That is just the sort of place we would love to visit..a goodness for the spirit.

(I keep getting all italics! I hope this comes out right one of these times...) Thank you so much for your comment the other day, I really appreciated it. I just got back this morning, after some personal matters, and came to this shot because I've used it---with a number of your others---as a lesson of many kinds. And I realized, after coming back here, that I never commented on it, at least in your gallery. So while my timing is off, I'll leave you one this morning. I remember this because of several things: First, it has your characteristic way with atmosphere---a 'film' look that many digital photographers often eradicate (me included, still) in the drive to sharpen & sharpen more. A very bad habit. Second, your characteristic softness & embrace with the camera, balancing the trees & rocks (hard & spindly) with the mists & atmospherics throughout the image. Next, that leafless trunk to the right: It feels like one of the image's 'centers', even though it's too far off to be a 'center'. It has something to do with an eye for the multiple centers in nature. To me, it feels like a center. Then, it has a strong contrast between flat waters (& sky) and the jutting land & trees: a natural contrast of texture, feel, etc. I don't know enough about photography to know how you get such light on water, but you get it more than once. It's beautiful. And the branches in the immediate foreground break-into the image and richen it considerably. In my experience, many photographers would avoid those branches because they don't give a 'neat' look to the image; but, for me, they are key, because they show how nature asserts itself everywhere. It's messy. And that's part of its beauty. Your eye for these effluences in your imagery, and the ease with you which you show them, are both superb. Then there's the mists behind it all, and the saturated whites (sky & water), captured with no apology for how they dissolve parts of the image into pure light. You've done nothing to "correct" that, in other words, but left it as it is. (As you have the slightly out-of-focus leaves in the upper left corner. This is a true shot, with many levels of sight.) Images like this show what to leave-in, and give lessons on the wedding between nature & pure light. Grand & beautiful & soft & caressing, and real jodie shot. I'm not here alot yet, both on rr and in general, but I think of & wish many blessings for you & your loved ones. I hope you're well & wish you & your family a wonderful Easter. I'll be back here again. Happy Holiday!