Right after the recent cold snap, we took a hike through the new snow.
This part of the river was once an industrial area, built around the mill that still stands up by the parking lot. The trail is built along an abandoned railroad right-of-way. Interestingly, considering today’s financial wreckage, that rail line was a victim of an earlier financial panic, the one in 1877. It was built to move ore out of a local mine, but never used.
We could hear the sheets of ice in the river cracking and shifting as the temperature had just barely nudged above freezing. E. especially liked this photo.
Here’s another in the series of my (apparent) winter theme of trees reflecting off the ice:
Kay’s Pond was iced and snowed-over except for a small open spot where a large flock of Canadian geese were sitting, plotting their next move. About a hundred yards away was this, another New Jersey mystery:
