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The winter of ’14 has been the coldest in recent memory. Lake Erie remains frozen, as can be seen in this recent photo from my bedroom balcony.<\/p>\n

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Frozen Lake Erie from our balcony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Take cheer! Summer will<\/em> return and transform the lake into scenes like this one:<\/p>\n

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Our beach sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winter of ’14 has been the coldest in recent memory. Lake Erie remains frozen, as can be seen in this recent photo from my bedroom balcony. Take cheer! Summer will return and transform the lake into scenes like this one:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139,1,13],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio","category-uncategorized","category-vermilion_oh","tag-vermilion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/winter-balcony.jpg?fit=500%2C359&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2867,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/cold-beauty-of-frozen-lake-erie\/","url_meta":{"origin":3016,"position":0},"title":"Cold beauty of frozen Lake Erie","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The long shadows from the afternoon sun transforms Lake Erie into an otherworldly landscape. 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