January was strangely snow-less this year, which made for fantastic pond skating.
Perfect black ice at Menotomy Rocks Park
Tessie can now keep up with all of us on the ice
For the first time, the Arlington Reservoir was skateable, in places
We skated up in the swimming inlet and then portaged across to the much bigger reservoir
Those black things are invasive water chestnut seedpods and they menace the reservoir in all seasons
We even made it onto Spy Pond, where the ice fishermen out numbered skaters. We were having a great time until a policeman arrived and rousted us off the "unsafe" ice.
Erin explored the swampland behind her school with some friends
An ent!
How were these thin sheets of ice formed, suspended in the marsh grass a foot above the ground?
More mysterious ice
Erin and Caroline continue to swim for the local rec center team
Heather loves doing math problems with the girls
and sometimes we send them to explore the sewer
or practice being scientists
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