Winter Dreams Archive:

05 March 05

Winter winks, blinks, and blues

    05 March 05: Two Saturdays in a row we have enjoyed blues skies and crisp winter vistas. A wink in winter; blink and it will be gone.

    Last weekend, we stopped by Goat Island; this weekend we went down to the Lake Erie waterfront. I by car and the Reverend by foot -- it was the annual Shamrock 8K Run in South Buffalo (I screwed up the pix that I took of her, though. Stuff happens.)

    In between, I took some pix of the growing icicles on the edge of the roof and even the bottom of the mailbox.

 

Trees in the water above International Falls are encased in ice, making a beautiful texture of the moment.
Closeup, closer to the edge of the falls, blends textures of rock, water, and branch.
The blue sky and bright winter light break the International Falls into a multitude of sharp-edged rectangles of textures.
Fluffy squirrel sits on ice in a bare tree near the International Falls overlook.
Frozen in time on a very windy, biting-cold day.
Change of view highlights the vee of ice this nut-buddy was lounging upon.
Trick of distance, modified by telephoto effect. Lookers at the American Falls overlook are matched by walkers on the bridge over the river below the falls in the background.
Icicles -- a mail thing, I guess. This is on our porch at midweek, mid-evening.
I took pix of the icicles formed on the roof edge of our house. I figured that they would not be around for long in all that sun.
I love the echo of icy shadow against the clapboards.
Ice fishermen, the epitome of macho, stake out ground between open water and the hulk of a ship that once took holiday folk over to Crystal Beach on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie.
The big and little of it all.
If I had been working for the newspaper, I would be out of work for messing up my pix. This is the only one I got of the Shamrock Run runners as they make the turn after running south along the lake shore.

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