Friday, April 17, 2015

The Beauty of Melting


This past week has been glorious with winters snow in full retreat. The stream beside the house is running high and I lie in bed drifting off to sleep with its roar in my ears. The pond has drawn lines where the ice is splitting, huge cracks appearing, freezing at night and thawing wider and deeper during the day. I can hardly bear to be inside; I don't want to miss a moment of the wonder of spring.


The first crack appears on the pond, 2015

A leaf, stuck in a crack, 2015

The mending of the cracks, 2015

ice pulling away from the edge of the pond, 2015

Layers of ice, 2015

And at dusk, the first reflections, 2015


8 comments:

  1. What I love most about what you do, is that you notice such beauty in all the small things in life. Most of all.....you notice.

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  2. Artworks of nature. You capture the essence of spring so well. Thank you so much for these amazing pictures.

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    1. Thanks so much Brigite, that was a long winter am I so love spring!

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  3. Ah, the Canadian spring is so different from the English spring!! Ice is wonderful, but enough is enough...

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    1. This week has seen snow on the ground almost every day Margaret, Very hard to garden and I have had enough of the white stuff. Bring on spring!

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