There’s no shortage of green spaces in Montgomery County, MD. Lots of parks around, big and small, county or state or federal, for hiking, being near water, just plain being somewhere with lots of squirrels, geese, and deer. Over the past several weeks, as the season slowly changed, I visited many of them.
One of them, one I have a much longer history with, is Black Hill Regional Park in Boyds. Whether it was walking my dogs on some of the trails back in the 1990s, or looking for a sunset-soaked location for a nice after work hike.
First place I went was one I hadn’t checked out before, outside of the main area of the park. One day in late February, still frigid and plenty of crunchy snow all around, the still-early sunset was fast approaching, so I figured this roadside spot by Little Seneca Lake, across it from the main park area, would work well. Despite the, again, frigid temperatures and crunchy snow and looming sunset, a couple other cars pulled into the small lot around the same time I did, myself the third one. One took a picture of the lake and left. Another wandered down to the shore. I did the same at another lakeside spot away from them.
Oh, by the way, this was the lake.
Frozen over from the deep freeze we’ve had recently. You can see something walked across!
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