Day 11 -- slow start

Each day the lillies of the lake easy out acros the lakes surface a little further, a little denser. Sitting here ech morning has allowed me to see the process--the stems slowly easy up from the lakes subterranean.  I can see the lillies two to three feet under the placide mirror surface days before they float it's surface.

OMG. HE IS BIG AND ICKY! Picture doesn't reveal his size. His skin and shell are covered over with some algae like growth. If he were a rock used to cross a creek, surely you would become wet when you slipped from hus back. And he had big white claws, the only aspect from head to toe not over grown with ick.