The paper used is cardstock, in the colors of the lake reflecting the sky at various times throughout the day.

The font is Bookman Old Style; the rounded forms repeat the circles used throughout the book and give a timeless, classic feel.

The pages are bound with a loose-leaf ring, and enclosed in a matching pocket. The wheel mechanism is created using silver brads and a transparent pony bead.

Each page contains a rotating wheel that the reader moves to hide or reveal the ways in which Mother Nature keeps time. There are three positions for each wheel, resulting in 24 total “time-keeping” methods.

The book is contained in a box covered in a water-patterned paper that has the title and credits on the front and the colophon on the back. I didn't want covers because I didn't want a beginning and an end to the book -- we arrive and depart at all hours!

The "afternoon" page begins with "the cycles of a lake aren't measured by the revolutions of a sun dial, but by..."

"a crowd of cawing crows, spreading today's gossip. could it be a murder?" with rotating wheel at position 1.

"the raucous cry of squirrels riding an unseen rollercoaster from limb to limb, tree to tree" with rotating wheel at position 3.

The illustrations were done in Illustrator.

This book was created for my sister-in-law's birthday. We have small seasonal cabins next door to each other on a lake "up north" here in Minnesota. I had wanted to do a book about the lake, and used her birthday as a reason -- I'm very deadline driven :-)

I was sitting on our deck about sunrise one morning having a cup of coffee, looking at the lake, and trying to decide what form my lake book should take. I was thinking about how at the lake, time seems to either stand still or speed by. So maybe there's a different way of keeping time at the lake? A bunny passed in front of me no more than about 3 feet away. I was amazed that it was so quiet I could actually hear the bunny's back legs thump against the ground when he hopped. Inspiration! I began to think of all the small details about the lake that make it a special place, and those details became "Lake Time".

I need to take a photograph of the book in the box.