Overnight the ice thickens, melting out just a bit during the sunniest days. The patches of open water have completely disappeared. The pond can be traversed by the lighter animals. I watched a mink skittering on the ice, making it’s way to the island. A mink weighs only a few pounds. We worry about the heavier animals. Ice is deceiving. One spring we found a heifer floating. Poor thing must have fallen through unnoticed during one of the first snow storms, the hole quickly covered over.
I found this trail leading onto the ice. There will be many more soon.
The palette has changed.
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9 responses to “walk with me wednesday”
Let’s hope for a safe winter for all the animals.
I love this time of year.
Your pictures show a stillness today…it seems like your walk was very quiet. Thank goodness winter comes on slowly…
What marvelous pictures of the lake. So wintery, or at least late fall-y.
You take the most gorgeous pictures.
The ice looks lovely but deceiving. We have had a bit of frost at night but not enough to freeze the water in the pond. That usually happens only a few times a year, it’s not at all like what you have for a winter.
Amazing… it’s currently 60F here! Very strange and unsettling.
So hard to think of that as thin clear ice, in boilerplate New England.
Your pictures look like a potential palette for dyeing. I love the look of things ‘in ice’, before it gets thick and snowed over. I haven’t really had that experience since childhood. (To warm where I live, or no ponds.)