There's not much change in the ice situation here at Joe's Pond. We've had some snow during the day, and the temperature has stayed close to the freezing point, so not much melting going on. We also haven't had much wind, which has kept the ice from moving around much. These pictures were taken at about 7 p.m.

There is still a lot of ice, and now a thin coating of snow on top of it. It looks a lot like December in this picture that was taken near Gardner's on West Shore Road, looking toward the narrows into the middle pond. Both the middle pond and the first pond are almost entirely free of ice - just a little along the Route 2 shoreline.

Here's a bit of news for those of you who may have forgotten, or tried to forget the construction in Danville last year. they are gearing up to start working again first thing Monday morning. If April 1st was on Monday, you might think I was pulling your leg, but it's for real. There were people setting up signs, depositing equipment and material along the route, and all signs are that machines will be rolling - probably a whole lot faster than traffic come Monday.

We took this picture around noon to show where the water has cut a channel, as Sue LaGue mentioned, about to Johnson's cottage - looking across the north end of the big pond to the east shore. It looks as if there may be a thin coating of ice with snow on it, but that light gray sort of shadow is actually where the open water is. The process of ice melting in Joe's Pond always takes longer than we expect - kind of two steps ahead and one step back at this point.

It was announced today that there has been a fund set up for Melissa's young son, Ty. Contributions may be sent to the Melissa Jenkins Memorial Fund, c/o Passumpsic Bank, 497 Railroad St., St. Johnsbury VT 05819.

On our way to St. Johnsbury today, I noticed a pussywillow tree by the brook at the Ward farm as we approached Route 2 from W. Shore Road. Isn't it pretty? I think it may have been enhanced by snow on the buds, but I liked it anyway.