Here is another photo from my brief shoot yesterday morning at the Heritage Pond Dubuque. The ice in the foreground covers actually another small pond just north of the parking lot and next to the Heritage Trail. As the fog started lifting and the sun came through, all the gray seemed to disappear. Within a couple minutes the colors came to life, telling the story about that the days of winter may be already numbered. The hawk, sitting high up in the tree, wasn’t planned but became part of the story.
The ice on the pond doesn’t really reflect how warm it was here during the last few days. I saw 23ºC (73ºF) today on the thermometer and we are still in February. However, there is a “blizzard watch” for parts of Iowa in the forecast for tomorrow and things can still change back to ‘real’ winter quickly…