Know exactly what you mean, Lakeside, bring fortunate enough to spend our first 2 1/2 years here in a house on the 95-acre lake in the middle of town.
There was a wall of French doors and tall windows in the great room overlooking the lake right down the hill, and it was a panorama of wonderful sights from dawn to dark.
Down the slope, I hung a hammock between two tall trees, and watched the flocks of geese and ducks parading their well-disciplined familes - and had two resident egrets who came to shore every late afternoon to forage.
Named them Ichabod Crane, and the very wise Herodotus.
It was truly a time of "Be still, and know that I am God" after years of turmoil and testing.