We noticed around lunchtime yesterday that the last ice on the pond had finally melted, leaving it ice-free for the first time since winter began. With spring (oh where are you?) officially arriving today, the timing was perfect. As you can see, we still have quite a bit of snow left, but it is melting some almost every day and we are down to only several inches now. (Though 2 to 4 inches are forecast for tomorrow … sigh.)
The bare ground in the right of the photo is where the spring runs down to the pond, and it keeps going all winter long, no matter how cold it gets. You can even hear the water running under a thick blanket of snow and ice. A well that serves the house captures a lot of the spring water, but there is still plenty left over to feed the pond and then flow out of the pond and into a wetland down below. The path the spring takes to the pond is thus the first patch of ground to lose all its snow cover.
Alayne and I tramped around the pond this morning to welcome the first day of spring, and it was amazing to see how clear the water was. We could see the entire bottom of the pond except for the very center. Hopefully within a month we will have the fish people here stocking it with trout. The cats have been waiting all winter.
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