An island and a pond.

April 24.

Sunday. To and around Creek Pond and back over Parsonage hill, Haverhill. 

See a pretty islet in the Creek Pond on the east side covered with white pine wood, appearing from the south as if the trees grew out of the water. 

You see the light-colored trunks beneath and then the heavy green mass overhung the water, under and beyond which you see the light surface of the pond.  This gives the isle a peculiarly light and floating appearance. 

So much beauty does a wooded islet add to a pond. It is an object sufficiently central and insular.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 24, 1853

A peculiarly light and floating appearance. See April 22, 1852 ("When the outline and texture of white pine is thus seen against the water or the sky, it is an affecting sight.”) See also A Book of Seasons,   by Henry Thoreau, The White Pines