Fountain

This fountain lives in the perennial garden at All Saints Church in the village of Westboro. Her calm round face, kindly presence and the slow soothing gurgle of the water into the basin below her chin are soothing indeed on hot days like this one when the temperature is well over one hundred degrees without humidity factored into the equation. In early morning, I like to sit on the old bench nearby, just breathing in and out and listening to the water.

This morning I found myself thinking wistfully of a favourite cool place, a secluded cove called Old Woman Bay on the northern shore of Lake Superior where the steep cliffs rise right out of the lake, where the loons sing at sunrise on summer days, and the water runs cold and clear over the rocks.