Ice Skating

Early in January, we had a very cold snap in Missouri. While in some ways it was miserable, our kids were thrilled, because it meant that our pond froze hard enough that we could actually skate on it -- and for several days. Many of the skating days were bitterly cold, though the exercise kept all of us warm, including those of us who shoveled the snow off the surface of the ice (this was my foray onto the ice)
These photos were taken on the final day of skating, after it had started to warm up and the snow in the surrounding ground had melted away.