Crusty old morning

Air temperature 16 F, wind near calm, sunrise under mostly cloudy. Trash out, parked on ice flow from uphill. That shouldn't bother the mechanized collection.

Misinterpreted

I was worried about a brown blotch on the garage floor, right under the front gearbox of our snowblower. After all, that machine has been through a dozen Maine winters and the start of another. But I rolled it off of the spot and checked closer. Wet maple leaf . . .