A Little Piece of Poland (not far from Faifley)

Every time I pass this quiet little reservoir (Greenland Reservoir No.1, just west of Loch Humphrey in the Kilpatrick Hills) I always think of two places: Thoreau and his little wooden hut on the banks of Walden Pond near Concorde, Massachussets, and the small dystrophic lakes of the Wigry region in north-east Poland. The scene, if the truth be told, with its audience of spruce (z prus, from Prussia), and the gentle dimensions of the pond, is more akin to the latter; Walden Pond in Concorde, after all, is not so much a pond as a sizeable lake, and distastefully decorated with tourists and locals alike.

It may be that because this sheltered little reservoir is 'walled in' that I have been drawn to Thoreau and his 'pond'; that, and the images I had conjured up when I read Walden. Realistically though, and if you can get beyond the artifice of the spruce and fir plantations, Greenland Reservoir No.1 is a little piece of Poland... not far from Faifley.