Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive
of PorchPix log entry of 17 January 07
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[Read
the original tone-setting post
to this log]
Silver
freeze, yet to thaw
17January07:
A
few days ago, we had what I would call a silver
thaw -- water freezing on trees, shrubs, and
power lines.
I
didn't take any pix, because I figured that the wonder would
be melted by daylight. Besides, I already have plenty of such
pix, I reasoned.
However,
three days later, the show is continuing and expanding. And
the freeze has yet to thaw.
The
heart of PorchPix
is seeing the usual in new ways. I knew that one never steps
in the same river twice, but I had forgotten that one also does
not step into the same silver thaw twice, either. I have never
seen anything like this, before. Now.
Window
screen lays a grid of even, predictable squares on the
reality outside. |
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Today's
reality matches the clarity of ice with the underlying
solidity of the usual popping through. |
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| They
call this a silver thaw in western Oregon,
when rain is followed by rapidly alternating freezing and
thawing. The world becomes crystal, for a moment. In Buffalo,
such moments can last for days. |
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| Big
blackbird perches on ice. |
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| The
three new colors that I spent the summer and fall applying
to our home, made perfect with the addition of an icy accent
and three bold utility lines. |
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| The
bare trees of our street sparkle in the afternoon sunshine. |
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Privet hedge and front porch, ice in evidence, everywhere. |
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