Only a couple times in our 16 years have we witnessed the actual freeze-up of the lake. Normally this happens at night when the wind dies and the temperature drops. One morning at the end of November we woke up to an awesome display. Overnight the north half of BootLake froze glass-smooth, but the mist was pouring off the open water to the south; mist so thick the sun was diffused into a bright orange cloud. We have created a one minute video of this amazing morning. Two things of interest in this video: the steam rising not only from the water, but also from the fresh ice, and the secondly the 4 large birds flying into the rising sun are trumpeter swans. They are commonly seen feeding on our lake up until freeze-up. Here is the link for the video: http://youtu.be/1jy1-z7au6k