I had been hiking for about a mile into the Three Springs Land Conservancy and thought several times that I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. My destination was the spring fed pond located on an old homestead east of Sister Bay in Door County, Wisconsin. I met a group of hikers along the way, one of whom played on this farm when he was a child. He encouraged me to keep going, saying there was a perfect place ahead to set up my easel. Finally, I emerged from the woods and found this pristine little pond sheltered by trees and marsh grasses. The sky was stormy with the wind whipping back and forth creating a trace of ripples like the tracks of an ice skater. The moment took my breath away and I quickly forgot the winding, confusing trail.
I had been hiking for about a mile into the Three Springs Land Conservancy and thought several times that I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. My destination was the spring fed pond located on an old homestead east of Sister Bay in Door County, Wisconsin. I met a group of hikers along the way, one of whom played on this farm when he was a child. He encouraged me to keep going, saying there was a perfect place ahead to set up my easel. Finally, I emerged from the woods and found this pristine little pond sheltered by trees and marsh grasses. The sky was stormy with the wind whipping back and forth creating a trace of ripples like the tracks of an ice skater. The moment took my breath away and I quickly forgot the winding, confusing trail.