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Hills Pond, July 24, 2009, 5:58 PM

Hills Pond: Reflections

There was enough bright light for the pond to pick up reflections.  I thought of Saul Steinberg's charming book, "Reflections and Shadows."  He believed that a reflection is often more intense than the orignial.  I wouldn't say the reflection is more intense, but rather more mysterious. But maybe "intense" and "mysterious" are the same thing.

When Steinberg saw reflections in water, "for fun" he would "throw a stone into the upside-down landscape, and seeing that the lower part moves," he would "almost expect the upper part to move too."