Looking up into the sky he sees the moon, and assumes that he has rescued it! Reflections play such tricks on people. Light borrowed from the sun and moon create spectacular images of the natural world, which are in turn recreated in water, nature's own mirror. On the shores of the Mediterranean, when the winter rain clouds are whisked away by the wind to reveal the fieryhaired sun, reflections of columns appear in puddles of rain at Phaselis, Perge and Xanthos.
In autumn the mountain lakes at Yedigöller in Bolu reflect
the colourful foliage of the trees in all their seasonal splendour.
At Lake Nazli, yellow, red and brown leaves floating on the green water combine with the reflections of trees to create an exquisite composition. As you cross Mount Bolu on your return, the lights of stalls selling bread by the side of the road mingle with the scarlet sunset sky to fall upon the puddles. The next day white clouds in strange formations can be seen in the crater of Mount Nemrut in eastern Turkey, or tiny mountain lakes in the Aladag range.