Lake Mendota as seen from my bicycle.
Spring Lake
Ice fishing houses gone
first dark patches
on grainy ice
give way to movement
webbed mallard feet
through open waters
–Rebecca Cuningham, March 25, 2023
0 días mas para pescar por el hielo
El lago Mendota como lo vi por bicicleta.
Lago en primavera
Quitaron las casitas de pescar por el hielo
primeros lugares oscuros
en hielo granulado
se convierten en movimiento
patas palmeadas de azulón
por aguas abiertas
–Rebecca Cuningham, 25 marzo 2023
¿Cuál es el cambio con la estación que más te gusta ver?
Which change of season are you happy to see?
¡Olé! –Rebecca
Part of Debbie’s Six Word Saturday and Hammad’s Weekend Sky.
Fake Flamenco 
At last the spring is here.
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Yes, or so we thought! 25cm snow today!
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Oops 🥶
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⛄️
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❄️🌨️☃️
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Precisely! 😆
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🥹🥹🥹
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0 days left – very clever, Rebecca!
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Thanks, Wynne. 6 word Saturday is an inspiration .
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Darn, I missed my chance! Next winter. 😁🥶 A lovely post, Rebecca, honoring the change of seasons.
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Too bad! There is another chance to make a snow person, however. Snowed a foot last night!
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Oh my gosh! That wouldn’t last long here.
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It is so interesting to see the ice melting and know you were cycling past. Hope you had mittens!🤣🤗
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Thanks, Sandy. I did wear mittens!
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Yippee! That’s a good thing, right? 😊
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It’s time, yes. 🙂
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Just at my parents last week and there’s still a good two feet of ice.
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Wow, that’s a healthy amount!
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Bet you’re dying to see Spring now but as you mentioned, more snow.
On the road again and currently in Japan heading to the north of the country. The further north, the colder it’s getting – supposed to be Spring…Stockholm on the 26th of April so hoping it will be warmer (she says!). 😉
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Great, Japan. Look forward to those shots. Is it spring there yet?
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Yes, it is, and the blooms are just starting to happen, which are so pretty but the further the north we travel, the colder it’s getting.
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Oh, your partner travels with you? Do you two have a home base?
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Yes, Brisbane is our home base and we’ve been there since arriving and getting stuck there due to COVID in 2020. Our first OS trip since then!
We last set out in 2014 so travelling lasted 6 years but in Italy for 4. 😉
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Exciting you’ve been out and about again!
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It’s great and I love being on the road again – must have been a nomadic person in a past life. 😉 Left Australia on the 3rd of March with 4 nights in Singapore then the rest in Japan.
Any travel plans on your radar?
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Or you are one in this life! Staying close to home here until our travel fund builds again. Looking forward to working in the garden this summer. Flowers make the world new.
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‘0 days left for ice fishing’ – excellent six word story!
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Thanks for your comment, Britta! That’s our Madison story, before the big snow yesterday. 🙂
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Sounds like winter’s not quite done yet… It’s the same here. We get glimpses of spring, and whenever we feel like yay, this is it, the weather changes again. Hopefully, we get there soon. I am looking forward to a bit of sunshine.
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Yes, the days of sunshine charge my batteries for the days of snow.
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Even with climate change, there is something so reassuring about the turning of seasons.
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Yes, purposeful nature-directed change.
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Seems very peaceful and calming 😌
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Yes, walking and cycling near the lake is refreshing.
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Must be.
As you my remember
My city is called Lake city
Here people cycle around lakes
But for me it’s kinda far, like 7-9 kms, so I never thought of going their just to cycle.
You can rent cycle, still going there just to ride cycle in between of unwanted crowd is not my glass of water.
I prefer being alone for such peaceful activity.
And from tomorrow I’ll go for cycling in early morning ( If I get up on time)
Only thing I can find on road then would be
Cows, dogs and newspaper delivery guys 😆
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Thanks for reminding me you also live in a city of lakes. Eagle and I were nearly alone on the paths, there were only a few pedestrians. Hope you are able to complete your cycling plan. Sounds great. Yesterday, my exercise was snow shoveling again. Good aerobic activity!
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Lovely poem and photographs, Rebecca. Southerner that I am, I just can’t get my head around sitting on a frozen body of water to fish through a hole. I’m just too cold-natured! LOL!
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Thanks, Janet. Ice fishing must seem strange. We could bundle you up enough you wouldn’t even feel the cold, but no one back home would recognize you 😉
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