Venus Commands the Sky Over Frozen Waves

Apropos of nothing, last night I took this picture just after sunset. The sky was still bright enough to illuminate the lake at a low angle, accentuating the ripples and color variations of the thin ice covering the liquid below... but also dark enough that brilliant Venus was easily visible, dominating the sky to the south. Yesterday was an irritating day for a number of reasons; everything I was doing seemed to get bollixed and impeded by trivialities. It was nothing major, but enough to be fr...