Friday, November 13, 2009

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

1 comment:

  1. Hi Sue. Thank you for your letter and for creating this blog. Our camp is located at 181 QPR. My vote for the name of the association is "Friends of...". Feel free to contact me at billandwendi@gmail.com. Bill Maynard

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