Chain of Lakes State Park - January 17, 2020

Chain of Lakes is the closest state park to home, but I only recently started stopping there when in the area for work.  This visit was on another cold, clear January day.  Parked atop a glacial esker, I descended the slope to run Trails 2 and 7, around Bowen Lake, along a stream, and aside Sand Lake. The cold killed my phone battery, and as I stood on a wooded ridge trying to resurrect it, I was struck by the sounds of the forest: a large woodpecker hammering a tree, the bare trees creaking in the breeze, the bird songs.  Our area is known for vast expanses of flatland, leveled by glaciers thousands of years ago, so the areas with hills, valleys, dunes, and lakes are fascinating to me.  Air pockets had formed in the ice around the edge of the lake, creating swirling patterns, which turns out to be the only thing I photographed.