Around Here

I have no wildlife pictures for you. It's hunting season for the Canada Geese, and with so many gun shots around, not much to see.
Yesterday we spotted this fisherman heading out for a day on the ice. This person is taking a big chance I think. Last week-end there was a water rescue on this lake after someone fell through and was trapped beneath the ice for 2-3 minutes. Successful rescue thank goodness, but you wouldn't catch me out there !

Just a couple shots looking up through the Spruce trees at the blue sky, which we haven't seen all that much lately.

A little old building that I haven't yet figured out what it was. It sits right on a corner of 5 dirt roads that come together. Seems too small for a school. Maybe an old church! It always fascinates me.

Gary took this shot looking across the road from our home. These deer and many more come out to feed about 3 o'clock every afternoon.

Well, it got up to 53º here today. Cloudy all day and windy. Friday it's supposed to hit almost 70º

Just a teaser for sure. We'll have more winter yet. Gee, the maple sap hasn't even been running yet.

Presque Isle, and Watery Wednesday

It began as a beautiful day Tuesday, but by 9AM it had clouded up, and was that way the rest of the day. Some light snow about noon, and now at 8:30 PM the temp. is 27º and it's raining. Freezing rain ! Coating everything. We'll let the wood stove go out tonight, in case there could be power lines down from the ice. More fun!
Well, this is the price of gas today. Up $.10 since yesterday. Here we go again! We had to take one of Gary's locomotives in for service this morning. so while we waited while they worked on it we took a ride around Presque Isle on Lake Erie. This picnic table looked so lonely just waiting for summer.

Hey Mary, look what I found... This Fox squirrel was enormous! Almost the size of Azrael, and he was eating seeds from pine cones. They must be full of good nutrients.

He didn't seem frightened, and sat there while I took some pictures, then he grabbed a pine cone and scurried across the road.

Back by the Coast Guard Station is a cove where the water is already frozen. There are lots of house boats there all locked in place waiting for the spring thaw and the return of their residents.

Some are quite nice.

This is a two story. I don't think I'd want to be out there in a wind storm..

A couple of guys ice fishing. The newspaper sent someone out to do a story and I heard them shout to these guys asking how thick was the ice, but I couldn't hear the answer. They haven't fallen through, so it must be OK.

A pile of sand used to replenish the beaches when the high winds blow the sand away. (I like white sand like on Florida's Gulf Coast.) LOL

This light house is out at the end of a long pier, and is not a working one, but good for picture taking. It was way too cold to walk out there.

This is a shot of the Bay ice. Not smooth enough for skating.

Looking across the Bay at the Erie shoreline.

This marina has all it's boats cocooned in blue plastic.

I took a bunch of bird pictures after I got home. There was a large flock of Pine Siskins that hung around quite a while. I'll post them tomorrow.

Thanks to 2sweetnsaxy for hosting Watery Wednesday. Click on http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/ to see lots more water photos frozen or not.