Mill Creek at Night

This time at Solomons Island, we chose to anchor about a 1/2 mile up Mill Creek, a right turn north after entering the main harbor. How to describe it.......I wanted to take a picture to hold in my memory, but a camera cannot capture the beauty of the night. Stillness like a mirror, with each light doubled in the darkness, strings of fairy lights the length of a dock, above and below. Anchor lights are hung from the mast tops like stars in the sky, and hung again beneath. In the center of our view, lining the water, massive oaks and maples, blooming blacker thasn the night. A full moon, hazy in the misty sky, gives a pale glow. Across the water, a man's deep laughter, is answered in kind by the soprano lilt of a woman. Crickets whisper ashore and ducks murmer somewhere, unseen in the darkness.  From another direction, distant notes of a flute float through the night. We sit a long time in the cockpit, becoming one with the moment.