Our Icy Neighborhood Pond
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I ventured outdoors on a sunny morning with the temperature in the teens; I wanted to see what the ice on the pond looked like at closer range than the windows of our house. Along the way I noticed the lingering snow near some rocks leaning up against a retaining wall; they’ve been leaning there since we moved to the neighborhood – maybe it is intentional to make the wall look unfinished? I like the color of the pine needles around the rocks…contrasting with the snow.
Closer to the pond, I photographed a leaf among the remnants of snow and moss/algae in the channel that feeds the pond with run off from the neighborhood. A little further on there was a big wad of oak leaves caught under the small bridge; it would slow the flow during a big rain.
And then there was the pond. Parts of the surface were white with ice…some ice was almost clear. It was hard to tell if there was any open water. There appeared to be some areas that migh have thawed and then refrozen…clear ice between areas of white.
I took zoomed pictures of the surface – noticing twigs where ice accumulated, leaves under the ice.
My favorite picture of the morning was a leaf frozen under some ice with the big frost/snow crystals on its surface.
