My paper boats—one pink, one yellow—float in sunlight. I stand calf-deep in the lake, camera in hand.

A flood of ice cold water pours into my right boot. Do I give up and go home?

No. My laughter echoes across the lake: after all I’m seventy-five years old.

Joanna M. Weston is married with two cats, multiple spiders, a herd of deer, and two derelict hen-houses. Her middle-reader, Those Blue Shoes, was published by Clarity House Press. She has also published a book of poetry, A Summer Father, through Frontenac House of Calgary, and an eBook, The Willow Tree Girl, through her blog.