Feelings of the lake

What do you see around you? What time of day is it? The atmosphere of the lake changes with the passing hours of the day and night.

On the hills above the lake, a friend of mine owns some vineyards, and for two consecutive years I worked there during the grape harvest. So, my connection with the lake began from above, because the vineyards overlooked it. And there, you were always aware of the scent of the lake, of the water itself. Above all, I discovered something I had never experienced before: August mornings. Five or six in the morning, everything wrapped in mist. It was as though the end of summer already carried within it the first signs of the colder season to come. It is a landscape that suggests a very slow passage of time, one that almost seems to stand still.
At a particular moment in my life, when I was pregnant, I spent a lot of time walking in beautiful places. That is how I happened to find myself at Lake Fimon, late one afternoon, just as the light was beginning to fade. I set off and decided to walk all the way around the lake without really knowing how long it would take. And so, from daylight, I gradually found myself enveloped in a soft darkness, filled with completely different sounds of nature. I was on the side of the lake where there is little more than the road and a few houses overlooking the water. There, as I was saying, I could already sense that the wildlife was changing... It was the very sound of the lake that seemed more muffled somehow... It frightened me a little because I was not sure whether it would be wiser to turn back or continue my walk. But then, driven by a mixture of curiosity and adrenaline, I carried on. And so, surrounded by darkness, I found my bearings in the few lights shining from the houses and, in the distance, the occasional barking of a dog... All mirrored in the lake below. Then, reaching the end of the walk and finding those wooden structures that mark the final part of the route was certainly reassuring. I can say that I experienced the lake as a whole. That is how it felt.