Another one...
I went to college in the northern Adirondacks at a tiny little place about ten miles from anything. Seriously- the nearest thing besides someone's house was a minimum security prison about seven miles away.

So one night in late spring I was on campus with some friends and we went for a walk along the road. (There was only one road to walk along.) It was a new moon and the sky was so clear that the Milky Way shone as plain as the Big Dipper, so it was very dark with only starlight to guide us- enough to see that we were on the road, but not a lot else.

As we went along I looked to the side, and we came upon an open area in the trees. I looked down at the ground there, and I would have sworn there was a humongous hole there filled with lights. I stopped dead in my tracks, trying to make sense of what I was seeing, and then realized it was a large pond. The water was so still that there were no ripples on it, and the stars were reflected perfectly. It gave a very convincing illusion that there was a city on the bottom of the pond.

One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 13 Mar 2005, 10:08, Reply)