Good Morning!
We took the first two pictures on Tuesday morning. You can see the channel that feeds the pond was completely open. There was water on the ice in back of the islands.

Last night, Wednesday night, we had temperatures of 27 degrees or lower here, and possibly it was colder down at water level, so this morning in back of the islands is crispy white again, and the channel has "cat ice" on the backwaters. This is the time of year when we go two steps forward and one back.

Today is beautiful, but probably won't get much above 50 degrees, so melting will be slow.

We hope your day is a good one and if you picked sometime in May for the ice to go out of Joe's Pond, you still have a chance to win the contest.