We are on vacation on Grand Island at the north end of Lake Champlain. The lake is between Vermont and New York; the Island is part of Vermont. This is the view from the porch of the house we have been in; we arrived on a windy day but went for a nice swim anyway.
It would be wrong if I gave you the impression that we have been sitting around. We have been biking, paddling kayaks, swimming, cooking, eating, watching movies, even reading a little(!). But I have been fascinated by the changes in our view as the weather and time of day change.
For a day and a half, the wind was blowing so hard that biking on a flat road we felt as if we were biking uphill. We didn't dare go out in the kayaks.
But then the weather calmed, and we could watch the sun set and then watch the stars. The view from the porch has been different every hour of every day. It has been a great reminder that no matter how much we are in motion, our actions are dwarfed by the movement of weather patterns, by the turning of the earth, and by the motion of the earth through space.
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