On 26 Feb 2005 (Roop) amazed us with:

here are some pics if you guys want to take a look. they are about
200kb each.

http://www.rserve.biz/aquatics/ponds/winter/

I'm in shock, totally dismayed. Ah.... is this your first pond winter?

Here I was, getting a jump on the season (I thought) when I went out and
took the screening off my lily pond today. The water is a chilly 40F.
Looking at my lilies, I could see nothing happening, so even though we've
had lovely above normal temps during the day (high 50s), we've had below
normal temps at night (20s). So today's planned lily pond chores will be
left for another weekend after a few warm nights. Today I did clean up the
irises and arrowheads, tomorrow I will do the lotus. The day after, weather
permitting (as I have Monday & Tuesday off) I'll doing yard pruning, too
early to do any raking or cleaning till the frogs wake up.

Needless to say, so glad everything isn't under that much snow, and if it
were. I sure wouldn't be digging for it. ~ jan

~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~