and here's what it looked like at dusk

icy river

Not so cold, actually, but it looks like it is.  I always like when the river gets icy, it reminds me of the scene in Pikovaya Dama when the soprano is about to throw herself into the river.  I guess it was the Met production (I've seen a few different productions, love that opera), the river looked a lot like this.  Really awesome how they got a stage to look like a river with ice flowing in it....

The Shrewsbury doesn't freeze solid here, the current is too fast.  Up in Red Bank, tho, it can get pretty solid, and then the ice sailors come out to play.  The weather has been running frigid and not so, alternately, so when the sun comes out, the ice melts down and it hasn't gotten solid enough to go out on it, in most places.  There's still plenty of winter yet to come, tho, so maybe I'll be tempted to get skates and give it a try - but not right here.

It's been a LONG time since I've skated....do I dare?