Photo: Nancy Fergesen
A serene skate on a foggy pond creates a picture-perfect winter tableau.
There is a nameless pond that is nestled in between Londonderry Road and Stauder Circle in the Parkwood Knolls neighborhood of west Edina. Nancy Fergesen drives by it almost every day. She noticed that someone would shovel a path through the snow, but she never knew the identity of the path maker.
“I thought, ‘I wish I could see the person who did it, skating around.’ It’s just such an idyllic thing we’re about to do in Minnesota—skate on ponds and lakes,” Fergesen says.
Then on a foggy day last January, she was driving by the pond and noticed a skater on the ice. She pulled over and pulled out her phone.
“That’s all I had with me,” she says. “I don’t know if he is the one who shoveled it, but this man was skating. It was just so serene … It’s really beautiful to see this person take advantage of a beautiful time in winter and have some quiet solitude.”
Photographer: Nancy Fergesen
Title: Pond Skater
Equipment used: iPhone 11 Pro
Category: Activities & Events
Award: Third place
