What a difference a day makes. I don’t plan on even sticking my nose outside today. I took the picture from inside my house so the wind wouldn’t blow me away.
As turbulent as that water is today there were little ducks happily looking for food by my pier.
I must tell you about the cranes and heron checking out the pond: They have been congregating on the Harbour Drive side of the pond everyday for a week, just looking. I never see them eat anything. It had stopped raining giving me a chance to quietly walk near them to take a picture. They stopped looking into the pond and give me a very suspicious look and flew off before I could focus the camera. They were looking at something: someone had thrown the insides of a refrigerator into their pond. I hope we can get it out before it becomes a trap for one of our feathered friends.

WINTER SOLSTICE
This is my favorite day of the year: the first day of winter, the shortest day of the year. I’m sending the sunset because starting tomorrow the sun will be slowing making its way up the bay until the Summer Solstice when the sunset will be directly in front of my house. Tomorrow the day will be just a little longer.
I was just watching the weather channel with the photos of all the really bad snows. Maryland truly is the Land of Pleasant Living; we have the changes of seasons, so far nothing very drastic.
Since I’ve lived in Ocean City, Maryland I’ve only seen snow twice and then it was pretty, then gone. In six years I’ve seen the pond frozen over only once. I shudder to think that could happen today because we certainly aren’t prepared for that event. Why? The pond water hasn’t been lowered which could cause ice to stop the flow of the outfall pipe. That would have potential for flooding for residents on the pond.