The first day of Winter brought with it freezing rain. Now this was not so bad by itself, a light coating of thin ice makes for beautiful images and generally does not have a dramatic impact on the trees around Lake Aquitaine …

… but unfortunately the weather forecast and the continued freezing rains that followed left many of the trees around our lake in a sad and broken condition.

Terri and I walked around yesterday (follow the link to her images) taking pictures of the trees and other ice covered pieces around the lake, my images are in the first gallery. We walked around again early this morning (more images by Terri) and this is when I took the second gallery images.