Views on a Winter Walk

I was out walking in a wooded area and past a small pond. I was quite a ways from the pond … it was sitting in the bottom of a glacial karst (a depression that was left behind when a block of ice was buried and later melted). I saw these two ducks sitting on a log and liked what I could see. After zooming in with a tight crop, I liked the reflections and ripples a lot.

Just down the trail from the pond, I saw these alder (below) and liked the contrast between them and the evergreens in the background.