Mirror Lake, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. February 6, 2009.
Friday brought us something we haven’t seen in a while — blue skies and warm temperatures. It actually got up to about 55° and it is supposed to be even warmer today. Thursday was the first day in quite some time that we didn’t have a fire in the fireplace.
I did a little maintenance in the yard, but it was still fairly wet and muddy so I soon quit. But since it was such a beautiful day I wasn’t ready to go in, so I took a walk on the other side of the golf course, something I haven’t done in several weeks.
When I got to Mirror Lake I was surprised to see that there was still a thin covering of ice at the end away from the fountain. You can see the geese are also all down at that end (the picture above can be enlarged by clicking on it). I’ve only seen the lake frozen a couple of times in the five years we’ve lived here. I didn’t even imagine that there would still be ice, but there it is.
It dropped below freezing again when the sun went down, but since it’s supposed to be warm again tomorrow I doubt there will be any ice by the afternoon. I’ll have to admit that the sheen of ice looked pretty in the late afternoon light, but I won’t be angry if that’s the last ice I see this winter!
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