Selfie with frozen vernal

After a week of seriously below-normal temps, today it's cloudy and, for this time of year, downright balmy—in the low 50s. It's raining lightly, off and on, and later in the afternoon and evening, there's the prospect of monsoonal weather, with wind and even a thunderstorm or two. In between downpours, I went for a quick walk at Babcock, primarily to see whether I could spot any amphibians or invertebrates moving under the ice at the vernal pools complex. I might have had some luck, if I'd thought to bring an ice augur, but as I stood atop at least six inches of ice that wasn't as much of a clear window as I'd hoped, I couldn't resist snapping a selfie of me attempting to observe and capture the view. Actually, I hadn't planned to take a self-portrait, but I found that, given the light and the angle, I just couldn't get out of my own photographic way.