Mallards (and small Canda Geese in the distance in one shot) on lodge pool, about a 15-minute walk from my house.

Lodge pool was once the exterior swimming pool at the Briarcliff Lodge (See last picture. This is the first stage of the development of Briarcliff Lodge. It subsequently grew to be much, much larger). Celebrities must have swum here. US Olympics swimming trials were held here.

Popular legend hereabouts suggests that if you were to dive to the bottom, you’d find tiles beneath the mud.

Taken with Sony A77II and Minolta 35-105 f3.5-4.5