As we were finishing our walk one day last fall, we saw someone we knew and stopped to chat.  There were quite a few ducks on the lake that day but other than that we hadn’t seen much.  As we turned around to leave I spotted this meadow vole.  Catching sight of this little creature was an unexpected treat.  Given the dull quality of the light I made some shadow and contrast adjustments and used spot removal to clean up the water a bit using Lightroom.