Winter’s Ways

Taken on the shores of Oneida Lake, at Lewis Point, NY. The lake is, for the most part, still frozen in mid-March. But there are slushy spots and I could see the water moving below thin ice areas. No sane person would dare traverse the ice now; it’s too unsteady.

Still, my son and I threw heavy rocks on the frozen lake, and the rocks smartly bounced off the ice. Yet I would not allow him to step on the lake. Maybe in January when temperatures are sub-zero again…. I’ve seen enough of those Western/pioneer-story movies, with people in wagons trying to cross frozen bodies of water in the spring…. *shudder*