No, it is not a million-toothed monster baring snaggly teeth between non-existent lips. It is frost growing in the gap between two deck boards.
Appearances can be deceiving.
Edited to add: Back on Thursday.
Tag: Winter
Awaiting
A tree stands in a mid-January mild spell, awaiting the next blows Winter chooses to fling.
Softens and blurs
Late on a winter afternoon, wind-driven rain softens and blurs the landscape.
Edited to add: I will take my usual internet fast Wednesday night, so no post then. Wishing you, dear reader, a pleasant Wednesday.
Wreathed
On a winter day, a country road is wreathed in fog.
Grasses and snow
A good day
Some folks may describe this image as depicting a gloomy day. To me it was good to be able to take this photo, know the palpable difference between today’s temperature, -1, and last Wednesday’s temperature of -10 with a stiff wind blowing, to have made it another year. It was and is a good day.
Austere beauty
Winters’ austere beauty has arrived – perhaps a little early by the calendar, at the right time for the season. Even during a -8 afternoon there is something to admire. Here it was the delicate shadings of grey, green, and off white.
Lowering
The lowering sky brings a promise of snow, beginning tonight and lasting through Sunday. Forecasts suggest up to 20cm. That’s fine, we will be snug, cooking and baking, foraying out to shovel as we need, keeping the bird feeders full, walking the pups.
Threatened
The sky threatened to spew snow during most of today day, carrying out its threat only a few times.
There will be many more opportunities during the next few months.
Coming
Winter is coming, we can’t wish it away, may want it to never come but come it will. I’m looking forward to the season of rest, renewal, pondering the lessons of 2016 and how to apply those lessons to the next seasons of gtowth.
See you Thursday.
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