Frozen Cattails - Wednesday Walk

I spent my New Year's Day morning at the dog park with Zoey. It was truly beautiful, with more hoar frost on the twigs and branches. We have several different routes we like to take.

This time of year it's lovely to walk down through the marsh, which is a low-lying area with a creek running through. In summer it's a great place to see red winged blackbirds and fireflies, but the walking paths are limited in the warm months and can be very marshy. In winter, everything is frozen, so there are paths all throughout, and along the creek, so you can walk through the marsh and see the broad expanse of sky, with trees all around the perimeter like a big fortress fence. I really enjoyed taken pictures of the frozen cattails.

Come along on my Wednesday walk!

This first picture was my favorite of the frozen cattail set. But I took several more. I guess I never thought about what cattails do in the winter!

In this last one you can really see the hoarfrost on the tip of the cattail. As you can also see, the creek has not frozen yet. It's kind of unusual. Typically everything freezes over in the month of December. But we have had some warmer than usual weather, and the creek was running high and fast.

It winds all through the marsh, and at several places there are bridges to cross. Zoey is afraid of the bridges, but today she actually crossed over very slowly and carefully to visit a dog and its owner on the other side.

I took more pictures of reeds and grasses - and more cattails.

We also passed a lot of trees whose branches were all clumped with snow.

And of course I had to take a picture of my bench! I always photograph this bench when I visit the park.

Thank you for visiting my blog. And thanks to @tattoodjay for hosting the weekly #WednesdayWalk tag!

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