Rescobie Loch

Took these within ten minutes of each other at Rescobie Loch back in January I think. It was freezing and you can just make out the ice on the two bottom pics. 

Rescobie lies about two miles to the east of Forfar and I pass it every day on the way to work. Now that the fishing season has started, I often see cars parked in the most unlikely places. Right in the middle of nowhere. At first I couldn't figure this out, as you can't see the loch from the road. Then it dawned on me that they park their cars by the side of the road and walk across the fields to the loch. 

I see the cars now on the way to work and think.....lucky buggers!

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I also came across one of the most depressing Spring poems I 've ever seen..... don't see why I should suffer it alone.......

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 - 1950

Spring

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.