This is the sunset as I was driving home this evening. It's a little blurry but that's probably because I was holding the camera with my left arm sticking out the car window as I was driving. Now THAT's point and shoot!
So this morning I pulled on a jacket and walked out to get the morning paper. The snow was crunchy under my footsteps. I really like the sound of snow crunching while you walk. And it sparkled. Crunchy, sparkly snow is a sure sign that winter has arrived.
I looked at the lake at about 7:00 a.m. and was just amazed that it was still open water - waves, even. It's December, for Pete's sake. Lakes are typically frozen solid (well, not solid...but a couple of feet deep) in December in our neck of the woods. It was 14 degrees F. and that's not considered balmy by anybody's standards.
A couple of hours later Jack announced that there was ice forming along the shoreline...sure enough, there was ice about 4 or 5 feet out...maybe more but it was just along the shore. I looked again around noon and the ice was out at least 50 feet! I was gone all afternoon so didn't check again and it's dark now so the lake looks just like a black hole...can't tell how much more ice has formed. I can hardly wait until morning to see the progress it has made.
Why do I find this fascinating? Well, partly because there's a LOT of water in a lake (duh) and Lake Mary is four miles long and probably a couple of miles wide. The water is constantly lapping at the shore. It's always in motion. And yet it freezes as still as can be.
One of Mother Nature's little secrets, I guess.
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Sounds magnificent.
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