Evening Walk, Snow Going

Out at six for a half hour across the Woods and back at sunset. In the SW Gate and along the Southern Boundary Trail. Snow melting and the Woods 20% uncovered. No dog under the hollow cottonwood.. no fresh tracks there either.
Up the South Creek Trail, the water now drained from all the delta and washout plain, remaining only in the deeper pools of the main channel. No flooding anywhere. At the Elm Bridge no water flowing, only pooled there covered with a white sheet of ice.
The Woods, after six months of increasing drought, have had a good inch deep drink of melting snow... about 10 inches of snow or about 1 inch of water.
Back across the E-W Fence Line trail. Few tracks the entire route.. back to the western sedges. One yearling deer bounded away across the western end of the dune in the near dark. Before, interesting track of (that?) young deer dragging the front of its hooves leaving light lines in the old snow between each hoof print.
Late sunset color on the horizon at 6:30.
The past few days have been the coldest, down to 1F. Tomorrow up to 60F.