Posted October 23rd, 2013

No More Swimming This Year

A long, hot summer afforded me plenty of swimming in this lake next to my home. Warmer than normal temperatures have continued through the fall until now and the delayed onset of winter has been a godsend for me ... I have been scrambling to get in my firewood after a late start to my winter preparations and much downtime in September for rain and wind that unfortunately accompanied much of the warmth at that time. Inexorably, winter doth come though. The lake started to partially skin over most nights and then the ice cover was complete on the seasonably cold and foggy morning late last week when I exposed this image. The ice actually thawed again the following couple of days but a resurgence of colder weather refroze it solidly by yesterday. And today we have had our first significant snowfall of the season. That probably will remain on the ground until spring, but it comes 2 or 3 weeks later than when winter usually sets in at my location.
Pentax K-5, Tamron AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di-II LD @ 24mm, f/11; HDR from 5 exposures