The ice is disappearing from Clary Lake even faster than I had thought it would, and judging from the ice out guestimates, earlier than most everyone else too. That said, most everyone thought it would be early this year. Perhaps just not this early. There never was much ice up in the marsh, and what little there was is gone as you can see on this lovely photograph taken by Steve Cowles earlier today (at left and above). You can also see open water on some of the Clary webcams, especially cameras 1 and 2.

If anyone is wondering why we’re using featured images on most all of our posts now, it’s so the post makes it’s way to our Instagram page! If you have what you consider a nice picture of Clary Lake, send it to pictures@clarylake.org and if it makes the cut, I’ll post it here.