Our World Tuesday: Walking on the First Day of 2012

We couldn't have asked for a better day to walk than the first day of 2012.

The gulls seemed to be enjoying themselves too.

I was surprised there weren't more people out enjoying a walk at the lake.

I'm always surprised by how many more people will walk in the summer on a hot day than on a pleasantly cool day in the winter.

I understand why people might stay in when it's very cold but the new year started off with a pleasantly cool, sunny day.

I didn't even need a heavy jacket, just a sweater and light jacket.

The past few years the lake and creek have frozen for part of the winter but no signs of that so far this winter.

Our weather has been jumping around a lot and the colder days and nights haven't lasted long. My bird baths have frozen some nights in December but it has been easy to get the ice out of them. There haven't been any hard blocks of ice, even in the shallow bird baths so far.

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