Winter has us in His Sights

 Out walking with Taffy, we came face to face with Old Man Winter.

Here he is, looking back at us from the ice along the shore by the cookout beach.


He was playing some tricks.



This photo has not been reversed. You are looking at the reflection of the hill and the sky beneath the edge of the ice.









and this tree is just a reflection of the real thing, in very slightly rippled water.  The Bondi Bunch will recognize this as the huge willow in front of my house.








Taffy and I weren't the only ones enjoying a stroll along the shore.
We found the tracks of both otter and raccoon. Not to mention deer.












We also found this fragile ice shelf formed around a tiny stick, and doing its impersonation of a floating leaf.










 Finally, here's the sunset, just getting started, from near Farside and Longside cottages.  I love the colours in the winter sky.