Descriptive Essay-Rake Beach

LAKE LADY

Once upon a time there lived, in a rather large city, a man who missed the quiet of the country and his Northern home. The city was full of dirty air and noisy cars and trucks, and all the people went around looking straight ahead, and didn't speak or smile as they passed. It was a very sad place indeed, and he longed for the quiet and friendly land where he had spent his youth.

Now, within and without the city there were many lakes, and each one was crowded with the same people who never spoke or smiled. The beaches were crowded and the water was full of boats running this way and that till it was unsafe to even try to swim for fear of being struck by one of these boats. So busy were these lakes with people trying to find peace and quiet that they were as crowded and noisy and full of dirty air as the city it's self.

One lake, a very small lake in the middle of a great woods was not crowded. In fact, it was so far from the city and it's stores and parking lots that it was never thought of by these people who wished to relax at the lake. It was to quiet and the

The air around him was sweet with the smell of the pines and the flowers growing around the shore. The sun shown low in the west, and he was thinking to put in to shore, but this was a peaceful lake and there were no others around to disturb him, so he was in little hurry to leave. He just shipped ores and let the boat drift on the glassy water.

As the sun went down the sky turned to lavender and peach, and the water mirrored it in perfect reflection. All around him he was riding on a reflected sky full of color and nested in a ring of green grass and trees. What beauty and Oh what a quiet and peaceful place. It would seem he had almost come home to his Northern Land of his childhood. He was happy and the boat drifted and he drifted in thought as the sky turned to purple and