I hope everyone who still lets their pets loose ever (they are domesticated animals, not wild creatures), keeps them in these days, it is painfully obvious that some pets are forced to stay out even in this sub-zero weather.
Here is a view of the frozen cliff-side trees above the Black River that provide cover for many local wild birds along the Palisades of Springfield, Vermont, seen from the bridge over Comptu Falls on the sixteenth of January, 2009.