Low 30s, calm winds,
snow
It’s beginning to look a lot
like winter all of a sudden. With
a snowfall of 5 inches covering the ground this morning and a light snow
falling throughout the day, the overcast skies forebode of still more winter
weather on the way.
Days like today stimulate all
your senses. You can certainly
feel the cold, especially if the wind begins to blow. The stark contrast of black, white and gray replaces the
brilliant hues of autumn, and there is strangely a crisp clean aroma to this
wintery air.

I visited three nearby ponds
today and found most of the lakes with a veil of thin ice, broken through by
small openings of ice-free water.
These small open areas were often the site of what little waterfowl
remained on these lakes. In times
like this, many of the geese, swans, and ducks head down to the Hudson where it
will be a long time before the ice can close in on the main channel.

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