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Shell Lake Descriptive Writing

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My parent’s cabin on Shell Lake in Wisconsin is my happy place. Though the entire cabin experience is wonderful, my favorite times are when I sneak to the shore where I plop a plastic Adirondack right where the sand and the lake meet. With a book in one hand and a full, warm cup of coffee in the other, I twitter my toes under the tiny waves. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr, a pontoon full of elderly men and women, wearing sun-faded fishing caps trolls by, sending a phase of waves lapping at my ankles. Though we are strangers, I smile and wave as they putter along on their mid-morning tour. Changing shape in the sky above, the cumulus clouds, the cotton balls of the sky, cast shadows over the water. In a cloud of their own, dragonflies hover and jut,

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