Backwoods Sculpture:Ossipee Mountain Range
The featured artist in this photo is an ancient volcano/ring dike that is the Ossipee Mountain and a natural phenomonon called Columnar Jointing, when the flow of lava cools at an even rate and fractures forming these perfect columns that seem chiseled to perfection. I found them while hiking along a ridge on the Bald Knob Cut-off trail and a sign highlights the rare process. There is only a handful of locations on earth where this has happened. Here is a link to a past post with a 100k USGS map showing the ring dike perfectly.
Heron Breakfast Spot
5:30am at Fernald's Basin, Lake Wentworth.
Lake Winnipesaukee From Black Snout
Just down the southeast ridge of Mount Shaw is an exposed ledge called Black snout where this photo of Lake Winnipesaukee was taken yesterday. Because of the dense tree cover on the south side of Mt. Shaw, Black Snout is really the best place to get a picture toward the south. I'm stitching a panorama together that shows pretty much the entire lake. The photos still don't do it justice.
Downtown Wolfeboro
The winter mix continues…back to snow this morning.
Roberts Cove and Rattlesnake Island
View over Roberts cove and Rattlesnake Island, Lake Winnipesaukee. Have a great weekend!
Painfully Beautiful, The Broads
Adjectives are like Rumplemintz or fluff in your hot cocoa…easy to get carried away with but usually ends with a splitting headache. This view across the broads took a bit of a hike off Wolfeboro Neck on Lake Winnipesaukee, and the 10 degree weather and extreme wind gusts made it shockingly cold…but beautiful. Have a good weekend!
Wolfeboro Bay Sunset
It's nice to finally turn the corner on the winter solstice and get a little more light every day. This sunset opportunity came at 10 minutes to five this afternoon. I actually saw some ducks flying north into the bay today…if you listened to the national media you would think they were migrating back to NH for our moderate climates. Florida in the 20's? Cate Park looks so peaceful in the winter. A far cry from the summer concerts in the park.
Lake Wentworth Sunrise
A crack of dawn wake-up reward…this photo was taken from the Bridge Falls path where the tracks split Fernald Basin from Wentworth. Wentworth freezes several weeks before Winnipesaukee and usually a week or so before Crescent Lake due to currents from the Smith river canal and the the Smith river dam that drain into Back Bay,Winnipesaukee. Wentworth is also relatively shallow with the deepest point at around 60ft out at Fuller's Deep. The ice must be at least 8 inches thick now because i saw Stu pulling his winnebago "ice Palace" fish house out on the ice this afternoon. I'll get a shot sometime this week.
