human
Please generate a brief description of a foreboding setting with a lake and a rocky cove.
assistant
The lakeside path narrows to a crooked trail as it picks its way gingerly around the rocky cove, further passage westward blocked by a precarious stony outcrop. Low-lying crabgrass and clementines punctuate the path as it leads past some moss-grown cottages and turns back into the woods lining the lake. To the southwest, the unclaimed wilds of the shoreline disappear around a sharp, unassailable promontory.