Today I finally got out with my camera again. Its a digital, a Sony Mavica, which has its good points and bad. I'll write those camera issues up under "gadgets" someday.
The weather today was an amazing 60 degree farenheit plus...with wonderful sunshine and crisp NH air. So I grabbed my camera and ran around a bit. Went to a small graveyard on Mammoth Rd in Manchester (NH), and to Massabesic Lake, which is the lake that supplies water for Manchester.
I happened to pass a house along the way that could definitely be classified as having serious feng shui problems, along with some intense holiday decoration confusion. Its March...and um...Christmas stuff is still up on the roof, but they do have their St Patrick's Day flag proudly flying. :) In their yard they have a bunch of mini trees, a stump, power lines, a telephone pole, and a statue of the Virgin. 
While I was at Massabesic lake, after noticing a sign that warned about dangerously thin ice, a man and his beagle dog arrived on the scene and proceeded to walk far out on the ice. My brain screamed "what the hell is he doing. At least if he wants to be that stupid, let him protect the dog!!" Was this a crazy human or a vastly advanced one with many past lives of intuitive indian blood that knew instinctively where it was safe to walk and where the ice would collapse from his weight? (I knew the latter was a long shot) Would this idiot become part of my drinking water?
I couldn't stand watching him walking on the slushy ice, so I went back to photographing trees. When I turned around a short while later, man and dog were gone!! I scanned the snow with my camera's zoom. No sounds, no shouts... no Lassie-like beagle running to shore to find someone to save his floundering master. I waited a bit longer, started to get concerned, when both dog and man emerged from the woods. They had taken a shortcut to a promintory and cut back into land when my back was turned. *sigh of relief*
