Really?! I mean, it is beautiful, I find the starkness and simplicity of it a great source of beauty but not everyone sees it that way. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
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Really?! I mean, it is beautiful, I find the starkness and simplicity of it a great source of beauty but not everyone sees it that way. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Wonderful photos, Idril! All that frozen vastness -- very sublime.
Very nice photos Idril. Did you heighten the contrast somehow?
Idril I loved those. I like that white wilderness feel to them...the lake must be really awesome to venture out on.
Wow, Idril Great photos. The other day I went to an iceskating performance outside. It lasted only 30 minutes, but I was an icicle! After seeing your pix, I feel like such a whiner about the cold weather.
That piece of grass frozen looks like a penguin. I guess that means it's too cold even for a penguin in your neck of the woods.
I did on some, otherwise the trees just looked gray. I didn't increase the contrast in the first one with the penguin type thing and you can see those trees are definitely less defined. It was so gray and foggy that day and the vividness of the dark trees against the pristine white of the snow and ice didn't translate very well so it needed a little help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
A frozen lake really is fun to explore and the truly great thing about it is that it's different every year depending on how and when it froze, if it was sudden or slow, it was was windy or still, if snow was falling while it was freezing. The disappointing thing about this year is that it was covered with so much snow so you couldn't see all the bubbles and cracks in the ice and I think it muffled all the moans and creaks because a frozen lake is usually a fairly noisy place but it was very eerily quiet this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Her little ponytail is adorable. Bushy never allows us to make her a ponytail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Yes, the thought of three little kids playing together is very interesting. Hopefully they won’t tear the house down. :lol:
Hi Snowqueen, I can't wait to tell you this. Has Bushy or her sister ever hide from their parents? My son and his wife came in the house with Brooke the other night; she had just been to her other granny's house and perhaps they were playing 'hide and seek'; they set her down, to go put groceries away; suddenly they could not find her; I guess they were in a panic searching through the house. Their house is not that big; but anyway, they found her upstairs (the little devil climbed the stairs herself) and was hidden in her room under the rocking chair. When they found her she thought the game was sooo funny. I would have had a heart-attack myself! I said to my mom, my son's grandma, who "does she take after?'...we both agreed that my son at her age had a very ornery streak in him. Once my mom told him, as he was playing with his bowl of spinach, "Sean you might as well dump it on your head!" - he looked at me and her very devilish and accomodated - wish I had a photo of that moment now; it was hilarious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
Yes, three together might do a lot of destruction to the house! haha...glad now that Brooke was not twins. As to her hair, she will let them do anything to her - she loves hats and she loves bows and hairdos - she is already a little princess.
Idril, I know exactly what you mean by different types of ice or formations when it freezes. I live in a house bordering a lake; been here my whole life minus 3 yrs. We went ice-skating every winter as a kid and if it was windy and it froze the ice was all ripples and bumps - no too great for skating. If it snowed on the ice it melted beneath and also ruined the surface. If it was dry snow it could shoveled away to make a little rink. Best ice of all was pristine virgin ice when the water froze after the snows and it was still out, not windy. We had some great memories on the frozen expanse of ice. The ducks didn't have such a great time when it was frozen for too long; my one friend actually used to go and chip them out of the ice to rescue them....poor things...she saved many a stranged duck! Nowday, the ice is hardly ever frozen long enought to make for good skating. Right now it's ice but ruined by the last snowstorm...it just looks like ugly gray. If it snows it actually will improve the appearance and it will look like a vast space of white something like the photos you posted...would make for some good photo opportunities anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
I'll throw my hat in the ring with the snowy pictures.
Per usual New England mid-December shenanigans, we here up in the Northeast been getting dumped on with copious amounts of snow since early, early Saturday morning. Never one to miss an early morning trek through a blizzard, Elliði and I woke up at the crack of dawn (which was a wee bit of an effort after a long night of sipping vodka and enjoying the storm), geared up, and made our way into the Esker.
The Esker houses the Back River, which is a brackish river connected to a herring run which flows into a fresh water pond on one end, and a couple miles down river it flows into Hingham Harbor, and eventually the Atlantic. Being a salt marsh, there are hundreds of little outlets which cut into the marsh from the river. One of these main outlets, a little stream, is what separates the bulk of the Esker from the area near the gate. There is a small, hand-crafted crossing which we call the Boyscout Bridge, as traditionally that's who built it (not anymore, however).
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Once you cross the bridge, you're now in the marsh and much more separated from my neighborhood, which also sits in the marsh, but on the edge of it. When we got across, we had found that the snow drifts on that side were almost three feet deep, some up to my midsection. We had a blast pushing through it. I fell into a couple of sink holes along the way, not being able to see them with the snow; and Liði, ever the Northern dog, happily threw himself into the slushy water to cool himself off a few times.
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After about an hour of hiking, we made our way along the river and to a large field which houses an abandoned Cold War-era factory. So we dug in and had our breakfast in a cozy little hole in the snow drifts.
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It ended up being a great hike. It was the little man's first snow storm, and we finally got to test out those big *** snow shoes of his that he calls paws. This is why I love the winter.
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First of all, that is one beautiful dog and I'm not even really a dog person! :lol: What breed is that?! And the pictures are beautiful! I hate winter, which makes the fact that I've lived the majority of my life in the frozen north very sad, but I love pictures of winter. That looks like a wonderful place to wander in, especially with such a magnificent dog!
Thanks for the countless kind words, Idril.
The dog, my dog, is a Japanese Akita Inu. He's only a few days shy of six months old, so he's stall largely a pup. The little dude's my best friend in the entire world.
And you have to learn to embrace the winter, my friend! I'm not exactly sure where you live, but I can relate to the frozen north sentiment. Having now endured nineteen (currently on my twentieth) frigid, nine month-long New England winters, I've learned you either live in spite of it, or on behalf of it. So when it snows, I don't coop myself up; I gear up. Blizzards are more fun when you're pushing through them as opposed to sitting inside and brooding over the nature of the weather.
I have a dog that is part Sheba Inu but I like yours better. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Molpadia
New England winters have nothing on what goes on here. I lived in Boston for a time so I have experienced a New England winter...although I will admit that Boston winters are probably among the mildest as far as New England goes. You guys can get a lot of snow but you don't get the cold temps. I live in North Dakota and our winters are just ridiculous. It's not the blizzards that bother me so much, it's the insanely low temperatures. It was a mere -17 degrees when I got up yesterday morning, this morning we are having a bit of a heat wave, it's a whopping 3 degrees above zero! The day we were out on the lake it was around 20, which is fine and manageable but when the blizzard blew in, it was -20...needless to say, I stayed inside, brooding over the nature of the weather. :lol:
Well, I can't argue against that. You guys definitely have the more extreme winters, for sure.
What New England has on everyone is that the weather is just an exaggeration of the season all around. The winters are really bad and long (though as I said, not as bad as yours'), the springs are a drown out of rain and cool temperatures for weeks on end, the summers are short but scorching hot up into the upper nineties with a hundred percent humidity, and the fall is just typically more cool rain.
So while the weather's not the worst in every category, it's just bad all around.
Edit: Oh, and Shibas are awesome! They're actually bred from Akitas, but as you know, smaller. Mine will be about 120-35 pounds or so fully grown.
Fabulous pictures Molpadia, especially that first one. The haze really gives it a great texture. Love your dog too. He looks great, and nice to know your face. I actually thought you were female. ;) That beard is definitely not one to grow on a woman, at least not one who's not in a circus. :p