Ice Fishing in the Sky

It was a strangely warm day, for February. One of several in a string of them, in fact. Everything frozen was melting. Rain was coming later in the day. In the morning, I made a quick stop at the Arboretum. And this was the scene I encountered at the lily pond.

The water had been drained almost all the way down. A sheet of sparkling ice was still lying on top of it. Blue sky and puffy white clouds were reflected on the water. Red fish swam in and out from under the ice, in what looked like a scene from some kind of post-apocalyptic dream.

The song has to be about something strange, and this is pretty strange: Elton John and John Lennon, with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

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