Unexpected sunlight

it was just an evening stroll and I nearly didn't take a camera with me, but at the last minute I picked up my compact as I walked out the door. I wasn't really expecting to use it, after all, it had been a wet day. But as we walked down the road to Coniston Hall we could see a bright patch of light reflecting of the surface of the lake. Was it just the sun, was it a reflection of Brantwood, or some other phenomena? I took my camera out to zoom in on it, just to see if I could work out what it was. I never did work it out, but I suddenly noticed the warm light catching the chimneys at Coniston Hall, on Brantwood and the forest behind. So this is the photograph that I almost didn't even see.