Today Christina and I went for a bit of a drive. First around the tidal basin, then to the southwest waterfront and from there out to Great Falls through Georgetown. As you’ve no doubt heard, it’s been cold in DC, like in most of the northern hemisphere. So, naturally, we went looking for ice.
He Shoots, He Scores!
On Canal Road, out of Georgetown, we went drove by a car park that was mostly full. Interested to see what had drawn folks to this particular spot, we parked. Looking to the C&O canal nearby, the whole thing was frozen.
We walked down the bank to the canal, and slowly walked out onto it, nervous as to whether it would hold our weight.
As we made our way onto the ice, we saw a winter wonderland. Families out ice skating on the frozen canal, the snow shoveled aside, and a hockey game here and there.
There were two games going on as we arrived, one with nets, and one with 2″ x 4″s for goals.
All these folks out on the winter ice, enjoying the day, just doing what they could to forget just how cold it was was quite the sight.
Though we were tempted to go back to the house and get skates of our own, we were quite happy to just walk along the canal, enjoying the day, just like everyone else.
Snow Dogs
Today was a great opportunity to get out and take some photos. The difficulty today was finding just one picture to go in my Picture a Day set. I found one eventually, but I did upload quite a few of them to my flickr account.
I’d love to hear what any and all of you might think of the photos in the sets, and hear if any of you got out on the ice today.