The fountain

Pat and Connie have a beautiful fountain made from a tree stump and its roots. At any time of year it’s striking and unique.

For most of last week we barely got above freezing temperatures and the fountain was magical with ice cascading in glacial stillness.

Landscape ice is a novelty for this former Californian. But when it forms as it did on this fountain it seems simply glorious to me.

I’ve seen ice sculptures that are beautiful art forms. But Mother Nature does a mighty nice job on her own, don’t you think?

Marsh restoration revisited

There’s a new bridge across the marsh near where the old Three Crabs Restaurant was located. In fact, the road that led to the Three Crabs is now gone. Three Crabs Road now curves to the east, across the water shown in this shot. The new bridge is in between the picket railings in this photo, taken on one of our wet and gloomy December days. I wasn’t able to return to the spot where I shot work underway in this post last October. I’ll try for another shot in better weather.