The Year is Dead; Long Live the Year!

Taken at Lake Alice, on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville.

The sun didn't peek out until close to 9am, but it was lovely watching the lake come to life; two flocks of ibises, a couple of cormorants, several turtles, a goose or two, a great blue heron, a snowy egret, a red-tailed hawk building a nest, and two Chinese students in their pyjamas all made appearances as I watched the fog slowly brightening over the placid waters.