As the sun starts to set on Warner Pond in West Concord, this family enjoys a quick game of hockey on this newly formed ice. Yikes, I hope the puck doesn't get too close to that open water to the left. You wouldn't catch me out there!
I did a little research on Warner Pond and discovered it is not a natural pond. In the 1800's Nashoba Brook was dammed to generate power for a mill. It covers 54 acres and includes 3 islands. There are fears though that it will soon become a stream system with wetlands due to external influences causing it to lose it's value as a recreational area. Among those influences are invasive plants, concentrations of lead from old lead works and storm drains emptying into the pond.
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Yikes! Best wishes to you and yours.
I like the chair -- looks like it's right off of someone's back yard. I've read too many stories of people falling thru thin ice to venture onto a pond like that. It would be sad to lose the pond for recreation - maybe a clean-up campaign is needed.
As an aside, I'm reading a 1961 book I came across by chance at the library 'The Dog Who Came to Stay' by Hal Borland - about, yes, a stray dog that came to live with 2 writers who settled in the extreme Northwest of Connecticut. There is an man-made pond in the story and the scenery reminds me a lot of your photos.
Draga AJ, zelim tebi i tvojoj porodici takode Srecan Bozic.
That is a winter photo. Great to see the kids out playing hockey on the frozen pond.
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