With temperatures starting to warm up, the snow is disappearing quickly so I have been trying to capture what I can before Winter fades. It was around twenty degrees this evening and the sun sets pretty quickly if you don’t have a spot already planned. The snow in the field behind me had multiple little drifts that were catching the sun on the edges so I grabbed my tripod, put the camera and lens on it and started out across the snow. You could walk ten feet and not break through, then the next ten every step went through. this seemed to alternate over and over until of course I was in a rush and when I expected to break through, instead I got the solid ice and immediately went down with my tripod mounted lens going straight into the snow. the lens hood is like 6 inches long and was filled solid with snow but it was primarily fluff so a quick cleaning of the hood and lens glass and all was well! this sunset was very nice but I think I counted at least twelve contrails at one point, so this must be a popular route. I wish the farm was a little more prominent but it is what it is!