Skywatch over our frozen lake

What's up with below freezing temps in California for 8 days straight? I've lived here in the mountains of NorCal for over 34 years, so I'm not surprised, of course, because we've had very mild winters and very cold winters and everything-in-between winters.

If you look closely, you can see a stone that I tossed onto our frozen lake.

Here's a close-up of it:

...just to prove that the lake was frozen over. It was about one-half inch thick ice.

A piece of wood partly frozen in the ice

debris frozen under the ice

I like the golden colors of the dormant weeping willow trees in the winter.

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