Photo indicates transition, moody day on Bead Lake

HIKING — Spring is still awakening in the Inland Northwest, as indicated by this photo from Bead Lake Trail No. 127 on the Colville National Forest north of Newport, Wash.

Ice was still plugging ends of the lake on Sunday and the skies alternated from sunny and encouraging to dark setbacks to winter.

A hole in the ice indicated where a moose had broken through and drown.

Fur on the trail and remnants of a carcass covered in dirt, grass and sticks indicated the site of a deer meeting its match with a cougar.