Besides cold hands, the walk to Phillips Pond resulted in a landscape. “Panorama” is the word for the format, but I prefer to think of them as sweeps.
That’s partial ice out there on the water and the little sign in the foreground is the trail marker.
If you ask me, the trail marker makes the picture.
JOHN TODARO 
beautiful panoramic vision and the trail marker ;-))
Thanks Victor– appreciate the comment!
Yes, it’s strange that you keep looking back at the sign in the center of the picture, probably because of the wide format. Personally, I’m drawn to the right edge and wonder about the thick tree you can only glimpse.
I keep going back to the sign too. Maybe because it’s tilted and it’s got the curving branch behind it, a whimsical vortex of sorts.
Yeah, I love that old tree at the right edge; a bookend of foreground in a picture that already has a lot going on. It’s either a sugar maple or a red maple (I can’t recall). When this land was cleared for pasture back in the day, the famers often left a few maples for shade and syrup.
this tree just adds some edge to the whole view but is almost invisible 😉 Sometimes in my panoramic images i find some things i didn’t see in the viewfinder while taking a photo 😉
… the serendipitous subject 😊
indeed serendipitous 😉
You’ve won the sweepstake here!
That’s good; there is a couple of lenses I can’t afford. Comment appreciated 😊
I put my finger over the sign. What a difference!
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These ponds in the northeast woods are special places, especially when one must access them by foot. Though winter is technically 3 weeks away, it has arrived here, captured beautifully in this “panoramic,” (“sweep) view.
Thanks Paul, nice to hear from you