Winter In Sumac Park

Today I'm going to wrap up my visit of Sumac Pointe with a few more scenes of winter in the park. These are a few places in this small park that I wouldn't normally show, but that's why I will do it now. This will end my visit this place for a little while.

I never showed the kids play area when it was warm, but here it is now. Most of these places have a section like this, but I don't think anyone would want to use it right now. Would you? I know I wouldn't.

It is an interesting look into what the cold winter weather can do to normal outdoor activities. In the summer this play area would be crowded with children, but now, of course, there are none. The different seasons make it necessary to change most things about your outdoor activity.

What you see here is where the lake drains into the river. Newburgh Lake is named after Newburgh Road, that you can see passing over in the background. Most of the time the level of the lake isn't quite so high.

There are quite a few busy roads passing through this area. This whole park system cuts right through the middle of a largely populated area. This frozen lake was actually made artificially. There is a dam to the west that is at the source of the lake. I haven't ever seen it yet, but I'll try to get pictures when it's a little warmer outside.

It took me a while, but I finally found a place where the water wasn't frozen. This little patch of water is from something flowing down from the right. Flowing water takes much longer to freeze. I don't know where the water is coming from, but hopefully it's something clean.

On the left of this patch of water is something sticking up from the snow and ice. It's unrecognizable right now, but I know what it is. It's actually the top of a picnic table. The rest of it is frozen under the ice. Thee are a lot of these in the water for some reason. I don't know why they're there, or how they got there.

I guess this was kind of a short one today. Temperatures are the lowest of the year, and it's not good to be out. Even if it doesn't get warmer this weekend, I'll figure out a way to find something new. I said before that I'll take pictures from my truck if I have to. I'll find some sort of adventure, but I'm not sure what it will be yet. I hope it's something good...


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Same Place, New Time

Today I want to show you what the frozen lake looks like now, and what it looked like back in the summer. Since I showed you yesterday an eerie similarity between two different places I know, I thought it would be fun to show you a few now and then photos.

I have two sets of very similar shots that I took. These winter photos were taken a few days ago, and the others were taken at the end of last summer. This is a small park so it was easy to remember to take similar pictures. I didn't even have to think about it that much.

This park is a small part of a much larger park. This is Sumac Pointe, and it is for viewing the lake and other small things like that. It's part of Hines Drive which stretches for miles, and runs through several towns. You can drive through, hike or ride bikes there. I haven't realy talked about it much, but I will some time.

Here's the same view as the first one, but of course from last summer. There are a couple of ducks swimming by in this one. There are no more ducks in the frozen winter of today. I don't think they mind the cold as much as humans do, but there is no place for them to swim now.

Instead of seeing ducks, I saw other people taking pictures of the lake. I don't know why I never take any pictures of that kind of animal. Most of them seem to be more shy around cameras than other animals. There are a few confident ones that don't mind being in pictures. But I guess the rest of us have to hide and admire them for their bravery.

You probably recognize this one from yesterday. I don't like showing the same photo two days in a row, but it seems to be a good one to compare with the others. Notice how these two days are so very different from each other.

This one is so dark and gray everywhere. There are ominous looking clouds in the sky. The trees are bare of anything. And of course there is a coating of snow and ice on the lake. This looks like a typical winter scene. If you look at this one it just screams winter at you. It's looks so gloomy out, but it was a very interesting experience being out there.

The older photo below seems so beautiful to me. The skies are bright blue, with fluffy clouds floating by. The trees are full and green. Even the water has some green algae floating in it. It looks so full of life. This has been one of my favorite pictures.

Both days were very different, and very interesting. I followed the same direction both times I went here. I stayed quite a bit longer last summer, because the geese wanted desperately for me to be their friend. When they found out I didn't have any food for them, they moved away a little bit. They still watched me just to make sure.

I saw a few animals when I was here this last time, but they weren't quite at the park. They also weren't wild. They were still fun to watch. I'll show them to you in a few days. That's enough for today. The links below have some more fun information about this place, and my strange encounter with the geese here.


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