The ice man cometh!

Nice clear day with a great sunrise this morning.

Yesterday was overcast for the most part with some very light snow late in the day.

With the wind down I took the opportunity to grab some shots of the some of the spots of ice coring around town.

The first collage is of the brook that runs into the bay just south of town. This brook is a popular place to gather water for those who like a break from treated town water.

Under normal winter conditions there would be rocks visible and snow covered rocks allowing for reasonably easy access to either the brook running or a hole dug down through the snow.

Not this year, the whole area is just one big sheet of ice. The ice has even reached the shore where it rises up sharply to the hill above.

The below collage has one picture [top left] of seepage above the pond that has two outlets, one to the east that runs to the ice sheets in above collage. This pond has a number of brooks and seepage's that run into it all year. The other three pictures are at western end but outside the pond, this is a water fall in summer and runs into a brook that runs out the western end of the pond and runs down into the towns dam. In all my years here I have not seen the height and mass of ice in this spot like this year.