First Ice.

11-18-21 VERMONT: Yesterday morning was 20° with frost on the grass and ice on the ponds. Both ponds were about 80% iced over and the brook was frozen as well. I broke out the big parka for the walk around. The first very cold day is always a shocker, but by January that will feel like a warm day. Today is a warm day. It’s in the fifties, foggy and drizzly, and all the ice is gone.

The garden beds are clean, thanks to Addie, all the outside stuff is inside and put away, the outside water is off. We’re ready, Mr. Winter.

We had dinner last night with Diana and Steve at Candela in Hanover. A great meal as always. 

The outside work is all finished until Spring—except for snow shoveling, spreading snow melt, spreading sand on icy snow and filling the bird feeders.

Happy Thanksgiving. 

The upper pond with ice.

The lower pond with ice at the far end and water at the near end. The sun rises over the ridge and lights up the ice.

When the beds have been cleaned, the rock foundations of the garden appear.

Snowy Moosilauke under an interesting, layered sky.

Mt. Lafayette snow covered.

Uphill above the upper pond. This view is only available when the leaves are down, but before the snow. When it's snow covered, it's just a white blanket.