The phrase "a blue lake" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a lake that has a blue color, often due to the clarity of the water or the reflection of the sky.
Example: "The hikers were captivated by the sight of a blue lake nestled among the mountains."
Alternatives: "a cerulean lake" or "a sapphire lake."
To the Editor: Regarding "In Guatemala, Bliss by a Blue Lake" (Dec. 26) by Joyce Maynard: Just because Ms. Maynard suggests swimming in Lake Atitl doesn't make it a good idea.
This place is a hitchhiker's mecca – a blue lake with white beaches surrounded by wooded hills.
Sade Henry, 14, of the Bronx, painted an assortment of recreational balls, while Rochine Jefferson, 11, also of the Bronx, painted a blue lake.
The work, which will open in summer 2013, features 99 replicas of animals from around the world gathering to drink from a blue lake.
It takes place in an old limestone quarry 60 metres below the dense green forest, with a blue lake at the bottom which you can both swim in and drink from.
Shadowy valleys cut through the landscape; old mine stacks poke up from the summer crowns of trees and, to the south, the Tamar estuary is a blue lake before the haze of open sea.
Numbly, then, she boards a plane and wends her way across New Zealand, hitchhiking, walking aimlessly, sleeping in barns, so immersed in her own anguish that the glimpses we get of this strange new country are absurdly flattened: "a boring little mountain, a plain blue lake, a gas station, the same as ours only slightly not".
But the best works here are night paintings, like "Composition 138," in which nothing else appears but a deep black sky divided from the earth simply by the lighter-colored mass of a curvy ground, and "Composition 128" whose subject is a deep blue lake echoing a sky of the same color, the two divided by a long line of black shrubbery reflected in the water.
There is a church and a tennis court and a tranquil blue lake.
The Altiplanic lakes are stunning, a salt lake with a perfect reflection of its mountain backdrop and another, a deep blue lake struck an impressive contrast against the yellows and browns of the desert colour palette.
On the cover of a photograph album, the kind that a family might buy, is a tranquil scene of a couple rowing on a deep blue lake beneath yellow and red fall foliage.
