For the past three weeks, temperatures have been mostly mildly below freezing to well below. The St. Clair River has largely frozen over so open water is limited. As a result, overwintering waterfowl been compressed into small spaces. I saw in this small open water area Mute Swan, Tundra Swan, Canada Goose, Redhead, Bufflehead, and possibly another species.
We went for a good walk at Rondeau Provincial Park on New Year’s Eve. What was a dank, dark, gloomy day at home became an agreeable day at the lakeshore. While some might have grumbled a bit about the total absence of snow, I will (and did) gladly accept what The Maker Of All Things saw fit to grace us with that day.
A recent snowfall started out with small flakes. After a time these large flakes began falling, which gave me a very Christmas-y feeling.
We had a lovely, calm, clear night and morning which resulted in hoarfrost forming in this twig.
The St. Clair River is jammed with ice, as this image looking all the way across the river reveals.
Faye does cross stitch. Her current project is depicting each days’ weather from January first. Each days’ contribution depicts the daily high and low temperatures, and predominant weather condition.
Since the recent weather has been mostly cloudy with little temperature change, the colours have been largely the same.
We look forward to some change.
On a gloomy afternoon, a Snowy Owl watches me watch him.
I had overlooked this photo of snow perched on a narrow maple twig.
Grains of sleet are captured in an evergreen bush.
Although the snow is long gone, the memory remains of coming across these spoor recently left by a fox remains.
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