Ice on one of the little ponds.

Ice on the main pond, the spring is in the center right of the photo and is not yet collecting ice.  Not that the ice is exactly thick! Hence the name, though that may also come from the way the ice forms whiskers and patterns. I don’t know if one could ever skate on the pond, it only appears to have the one spring in the corner; however, it wouldn’t be much fun to go through the ice: three feet is quite deep enough. The animals are willing to walk across it in the winter, but a fox is lighter than a man…