One

One (Click picture for larger image)

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
~ C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

One large goose egg found half-in and half-out of the shallow water at the lake's edge. One lone egg exposed to the heat of the day and the cold water of the lake. No parent watching, warming, turning or caring for it. Just one solitary egg, the gosling inside now dead.

Submission for Photo Friday topic "one". (end of post)