Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. - Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Ice fishermen have been out on our lakes trying their luck. The power auger in the middle of the photo works off of a small gasoline engine. The scene is from the eastern shoreline of Hemlock Lake.
A sunny day casts a shadow against the backdrop of a Shagbark Hickory tree along the shores of Hemlock Lake.