Hunting for Snakes at the Quarry

We went at dusk.

We hunted for snakes but all we found were a family of snails and birds, birds everywhere! The insects were chirping and the bullfrogs were bellowing and there was a stillness. It smelled like grass and dirt and summer. I worked for 3 summers as a canoe guide just west of Thunder Bay. There is something about water like glass that carries a peace that I have never experienced in anything else. I wanted to run up to the water and put a paddle in it and feel the ease that it would slice the water.