“It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression … that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; … working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821

I love a good pond scene. Another good one of a close-up of the edge of a freezing pond during a snow storm: Freezing water and snow.