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I’m curious about those circles on the ice. In the photo, they look like open water but they didn’t when I was looking at them directly. And why those spots and not others?

The snow in the distance, across the pond, doesn’t look much different but up close you can see it’s been warm enough to clear away the snow on the grass near the house. The closer to the pond, the more snow, and the surface of the pond itself is covered with snow.

You can see the difference in the pond surface since Friday, even though the surface was completely frozen both days. I didn’t capture an earlier picture on the first, which showed the surface frozen in some spots and open water in others. It made an interesting pattern, so I’m hoping to see that effect again.

You may notice this is a slightly different angle than the first photo. There isn’t much physical distance between the two locations shown, but this view is facing almost due west through my windows and the other is southwesterly through the sliding glass doors.

This is the view out my back window. I love watching the pond as it changes through the seasons as well as the variety of wildlife it attracts. I’ve decided to chronicle it through one year, recording the changes as I experience them.

The photos will be in chronological order, but they won’t necessarily be posted on the day they are taken. Nor will I commit to blogging the pond every day. Some days, it changes or an interesting bird visits. Other days, not.

I’m also trying to identify earlier scattered blog posts and webpages and bring them here to consolidate. They’ll be republished with the original publication date, to keep them in some kind of order. This will be a long process and it’s not the most fascinating work, so it will take a while to bridge the gap from the earliest pages I could find, from 1996, and today.