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Winter Dreams Archive:

04 January 03

We walk on water again

04 January 03: Once you know where the rocks are, the old joke goes, it's easy to walk on water. Snowshoes help, too. Today we took a ride up to Lakeside Beach State Park on Lake Ontario north of Medina. We snowshoed for a while in the picnic area on the west side of the park. On the way, we stopped at the Erie Canal to take some pix, too. I'm trying to take at least one set of pix per month of the canal in all weathers. It was snowy and 33 degrees F. this afternoon; it's been snowing lightly and persistently since Friday.

I still don't know what those beautiful red berries are (middle pic at right); my mother-in-law suggested mountain ash; I think that may be the right designation; I'll do a web search soon and pin it down.

We had the park to ourselves, which suits us just fine, thank you, especially while we're still learning to stay upright. There were heated and clean restrooms in the main park building that you register at for warm weather camping. In other words, winter use is free. Cool.

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Snow and shallow water cover the bottom of the Erie Canal at Medina. It was the snow, the muddy bottom, us, and the ducks. On the television weather report tonight, the weather persons said that we have had three hours of sunlight in the past 11 days. Lord have mercy.

Detail of winter textures -- Lakeside Beach State Park north of Medina.

For more pix of these luscious red berries, click here.

I'm getting used to a new camera, a Fuji Finepix 3800. This pic comes from the old camera, a Kodak 3215 that I'm keeping for extreme contidions such as epoxy-rich shop environments and deep snows. The pic shows Lake Ontario through a screen of conifers. A 50-yard-wide margin of slush undulated in the gentle breeze at the lake's edge.