Seasonal Diversion
Temperatures about 20 degrees above normal (50sF/12C) for the last few days proved the magician to the ice on the lake and the snow, making it all but disappear and providing a return to the feel and look of late autumn. Watching the ebb and flow of the ice every year always reminds me of the "Old Man River" song in which human characteristics are given to the waterway. I get the same sense of that with the lake which, after doing it's job of slowly freezing over once already this year, sighs, takes a deep breath, and begins the arduous task again.
I've provided a second look at this scene, each to my mind yielding a very different feel and response. I have no preference, if anything leaning toward the warmth of the second; the first featured only because it seemed more stark and "wintry" in its look.
Seasonal Diversion
Temperatures about 20 degrees above normal (50sF/12C) for the last few days proved the magician to the ice on the lake and the snow, making it all but disappear and providing a return to the feel and look of late autumn. Watching the ebb and flow of the ice every year always reminds me of the "Old Man River" song in which human characteristics are given to the waterway. I get the same sense of that with the lake which, after doing it's job of slowly freezing over once already this year, sighs, takes a deep breath, and begins the arduous task again.
I've provided a second look at this scene, each to my mind yielding a very different feel and response. I have no preference, if anything leaning toward the warmth of the second; the first featured only because it seemed more stark and "wintry" in its look.