Hiking Down to Ames Pond

The other day I posted about stealing forsythia branches from a neighbor's home, the late artist Stephen Pace. I posted several of his paintings, including a couple that depicted Ames Pond, also called the Lily Pond on my road in Stonington, Maine. Today, I took a walk down to the pond and took some pictures. Of course, during this time of the year there are no lilies. There are sometimes deer and beavers to be seen and plenty of evidence that there is wildlife there. It has been a relatively mild winter and the ice is already melting on the pond. It was a beautiful warm and peaceful evening. I barely needed a jacket. It was nice to get away from the bad news of the day.

The ice is melting in the distance.

Our beavers are safe from trapping.

The piles of sticks are the beavers' dams.