Winter's Icy Grip!

You are looking at the Fox River and just a tip of
a dock.  A friend lives here and has marvelous
vistas all year long.  The river has frozen over and
before long, ice fishing shacks/huts will perch
on its safe areas.  Ice fishing is a rite of winter
in this clime!  I am thinking this willow tree's roots
are toasty though, dug in to the warmer inner earth.