What's in a Name

I don't have much time to post for a few days, but I thought that I would include a little news and a couple of photos.

The forming lake association is now called The Friends of Quimby Pond. We had a great meeting with Maggie Shannon a couple of days ago. Maggie has lots of experience with lake associations and answered all of our questions and gave great advice.

Here's a picture of the steering committee:

from left to right are: Marcia Baker, Rick Baker, John Towey, Dawn Towey, and Jayne Soles.

I (Sue Motley) was behind the camera (my favorite place).

As I looked out at the west shore of Quimby Pond yesterday, I saw a few ice covered birches and I thought another photo opportunity.

I hope all, who are reading this are healthy and happy.

~Sue

Friday, the 13th

Late Fall Musings

When I awoke this morning, my goal for the day was to get a few decent photos to post. I felt a little pressured, because I hadn't been at Quimby Pond all week and I had neglected to take a few shots 2 weeks ago.

As usual for mid November, the pond starts to "think about" freezing up. On a few cold, windless nights we awake to a small skim of ice and if it becomes breezy or the temperature rises above freezing, then the ice disappears. It usually takes several weeks of this freezing and thawing for Quimby to freeze over for the winter. In the picture below, you can see the middle of the pond has ice (It really looks like ripples, but it is indeed ice.)

Wildlife that I haven't seen for a week (but may still be here). The chipmunks and the loons.

There are ducks on the pond. There are our usual mallards, but now there are lots of mergansers. We have both the common merganser (in the upper photograph) and the hooded merganser (in the lower photograph). Luckily, both species graced me with their presence today...close enough to photograph, too!

As I walked on the road past the old Quimby Farm, the leaves were encased the fall frost and crunched when I stepped. Willetta Hall once told me years ago that this house was the original Quimby settlement. You probably know the place about one half mile down Quimby Pond Road on the right. It has a couple of stone walls and the apple trees.

There were a few apples still precariously hanging on the trees.

The Lake Association

We have a meeting this Wednesday with the Maine Congress of Lake Associations. It's great that they (free of charge) will help us to start our pond association. This organization has helped folks like us start up an association and it's great to get their advice and perhaps circumvent some mistakes made by other associations.

So far, it's 3 votes for the Quimby Pond Association, 1 vote for the Friends of Quimby Pond, and one write-in of the Quimby Pond Merry Anglers!

And did I say that I was afraid that I wouldn't have enough good photos for todays posting. Well, we had one of the most beautiful sunsets, that I have seen in a long time.

If you're here at Quimby Pond, I'm glad.

If you're elsewhere, then I wish you were here.

~Sue