Winter Wonderland

I found this wonderful old article on how Greenlake froze over in the winter of 1930! There was enough ice (13 inches thick) that someone even drove a car across the lake. The article goes on to describe how pretzel and hot dog stands sprung up, and how everyone came out to go skating on the lake. It would be so neat to see that happen again!

Since we've had at least a week of below freezing temperatures, we woke up bright and early and decided to go for a little snowy nature walk and check out Greenlake. With a Herkimer in hand, we trudged our way down.

The walk around the lake was gorgeous! Lots of snow everywhere. We saw many cross country skiers, a couple of snowshoers and lots of other people out for a stroll to take in the scenery. We lucked out and found several patches along our side of the lake that was frozen over too. It isn't too thick, but still, pretty exciting! Poor little duckies were still swimming around the un-frozen parts of the lake, and I bet their little tooshies are cold cold cold!