This morning, on Dwight's daily "Ranger run", he discovered all the ice jams and snow from yesterday had totally disappeared and the river was running free. It was actually half way across the road by the bridge, just west of our driveway. We drove down to the bridge and took lots of pictures and saw red winged blackbirds, another sign of spring. We now have lakefront property :) It is hard to believe that last August we were driving through this same body of water on our Rangers and our feet didn't even get wet. We are used to the river going out of its bank in the spring although it has not been this high for 17 years. By mid morning, the water had started to recede on the road, so the the worst is probably over, but it will probably be weeks before the water in our pasture has gone done enough for us to roam freely again.
Dwight did not find the swans again yesterday but did get a picture of an eagle in a tree by the pond and several red winged blackbirds. They are predicting a snow/rain mix for tomorrow, maybe some signs of winter will be returning--but they can't last long now.
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