Michigan November

Cattails stand upright in a frozen pond bending away from the icy wind and drifting snow near Grand Ledge, Michigan.

I didn't really expect to find open water frozen over and new fallen snow so early in the year. Then again, friends in Texas have been writing that this is the coldest weather in the Rio Grande Valley in more than forty years,

Ice patterns in a quickly frozen puddle provide testament to sub freezing temperatures that are still hanging in.

I'm hoping that south Texas warms up before we return next week.