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[Virgil]

Oh, I absolutely LOVED this picture!!! I love the look of the abandoned homes, too. I find something very sad about them, though. To think someone, perhaps a family, once lived there. Now it is just a sad ghostly image. Still, I absolutely loved this one. I especially liked the touch of winter to it!

You are absolutely right Lady Went. That is a marvelous picture. Idrill, you should enlarge and frame that.

[B-Mental]

I travel a lot, and take pics of those old buildings all over the West. That is a classic photo, and I love the late autumn, wintry feel.

[Idril]

Oh, I absolutely LOVED this picture!!! I love the look of the abandoned homes, too. I find something very sad about them, though. To think someone, perhaps a family, once lived there. Now it is just a sad ghostly image. Still, I absolutely loved this one. I especially liked the touch of winter to it!

I'm so thrilled you liked the pictures! I'm quite proud of the house one, I think it was more luck than skill but it did turn out quite nice. I have many of the same thoughts about those old houses, Lady, I think of all the stories it has to tell, all the events that went on there and now it's just a shell. The country side is littered with them around here but a lot of them are really just homesteading shacks, this one was a little more substantial.

I have a few more pictures to share and then I should be done. We made it out to the lake today which is always fascinating, it freezes a little different every year and every year there are new and bizarre 'ice scupltures'.

This year, there is a significant pressure ridge in the bay which was a source for all kinds of oddities, this was the first one we encountered.


This was the second, this one truly looks like a sculpture.


This is a picture of the same feature, just from a different perspective and here you can see a good length of the pressure ridge.


This is one my dad took. That's me, messing with my camera settings.


And this was a scene on our walk back home, this is one the beach, I just love the red of the willow.

[Niamh]

oh my god! that is unbelievable! How did that form?

[stephofthenight]

kiz, what beautiful pictures! i love the white fluffy stuff...what do they call it,,,uhh. SNOW! lol, sorry. i completly envy you...anyone want to vaulenteer to mail steph some snow? but yes i love your picture kiz, the snow is realy pretty i cant wait until i get to see snow, its going to be so much fun! yay! i bet its realy fluffy and pretty!

[kiz_paws]

Sleepy, I absolutely love those wild boars! You are so lucky that they let you come so close!

Idril, those naturally occuring ice 'sculptures' are totally awesome. We have that phenomena occur, too, but it is in the Spring that one must catch the pictures (that is the best time). I'll have to be quick this year (last year I missed 'em).

The willow photo is gorgeous -- you have some contest-winning material, Idril, just so you know! Glad that you share this beauty with us, thanks!

Thanks, Steph, for the kind words.

We woke up this morning, and it was great, a truly "foggy Christmas Eve" (as in the song, lol), complete with frost covering everything - from branch to barbwire. Anyhow, I rushed around and caught some of it on camera, then off to the one-hour photo, and here are a couple of ones I liked:






Yeah, there is just something about barbwire, dunno....



This one was my favorite.

Thanks for the opportunity to share these with everyone, Kizzo

[stephofthenight]

yay!kiz u r like so lucky to have snow, its so pretty!!! i agree with the barbwire thing, there is just something about it that makes it completely lovley.

[Janine]

This photo is a bit blurry but I wanted to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season.....

[Lily Adams]

Chirstmas again at the same beach I took pictures of earlier:








(My favorite. )

[BulletproofDork]

They're all so pretty! I wish it snowed here!

[kiz_paws]

Steph - thanks again

Janine -- pretty tree, but I love your lace drapes, totally lovely!

Lily, those are awesome pictures, each is so clear and concise. My favorite would have to be the fourth one down. Cool!

Happy Holidays, all!

[Janine]

Thanks, Kiz, and those drapes are so easy to maintain - just wash and hang up wet. We have finer lace ones, I like even better. I will take some photos soon. This is a funny thing, I like lace and antiques and my son and his wife like all contemporary/very plain; so tonight at their house, I noted he had a lace tablecloth over a small table displaying snowmen....I said "I never thought I would see the day there would be a drop of lace in your house". Come to find out, his neighbor lended him the lace cloth and the tablecloth for our dinner...I just laughed.

I love those snowy Christmas pictures! Wow, a white Christmas - how cool! I really like the one with the picnic benches covered in snow in the background, Kiz. I always think they look interesting in the winter and empty and forlorn looking.

Kiz I hope you are having a great Christmas.

Lily, hard to believe those are Christmas day photos - how warm it must be there. Enjoy the rest of your Christmas - almost over now here!

[farnoosh]

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[farnoosh]

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[mmanuelap]

wow, Idril! I really loved those pictures, the last one in particular! I'll put them in my favorites, really

I really wished it snowed here in Brazil :/ That's the only thing I can think of when seeing this amazing pictures, hahaha!