November 26, 2005
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encore, with pratfalls
[edit: Thanks to Zimbo's heads-up, I posted this and its prequel, on weekly_Photo_Challenge for this week's challenge, The Elements.]
After posting the one little shot of today’s sunshine,
I put on boots, hat, coat and gloves (glove liners, can’t handle the
camera in real gloves), and went out again. My objective
originally was to get a comparison shot looking southward from the
driveway. I couldn’t get anything facing directly into the sun,
so I backed off behind the woodpile and got a shot with trees blocking
most of the glare.
The southward comparison shot was, really truly, all I wanted to go out
there for, but it was sunny all around, and I noticed a young spruce
tree bending under the snow load just inside the strip of trees between
here and the muskeg. I got snow down my boots going over the berm
and through the ditch to get this shot.
Having gone that far, and thinking that snow in my boots was as bad as
it was going to get, I saw the sun shining on the trees across the
muskeg and decided to follow the path through the trees the rest of the
way and get a pic of the sunny other side. In ducking under the
bent spruce, I slipped and fell on my butt, getting snow up under the
back of my jacket.
But I got the shot!
Koji had gotten all excited when he saw me going out, and wanted to go
out with me. I might have stayed out there longer, making a fool
or an icicle of myself, or both, except that I heard him whining to get
back into the warm house.
My hands are okay, now. I had to warm them before I could save
the pictures and do this keyboarding. But my feet are too close
to the drafty floor and whenever I try putting one of them up on the
kneeler of this ergonomic office chair, the thing gets perilously close
to going over backward. I just have a few more minutes of
cold-floor endurance, because the griddle is hot and all the
ingredients are out and ready to be made into pancakes. A fresh
pot of coffee will brew while the pancakes are cooking, and then I can
get my feet up under the blankets in Couch Potato Heaven.
Comments (17)
beautiful pics also very interesting…
:goodjob: Yes, you must really appreciate those cosy moments! I’ve been told by Alaskans that the cold is drier there. I liked the 3rd photo especially. And it gets deeper? Goodness!
Those are beautiful shots.
Get warm and stay warm.
If you didn’t know,the Photo Challenge theme just now is ‘The Elements’ if you want to link to it with these pictures!
Photos well worth the trip outside! Cold ! WOW! Pancakes I’ve had a craving for the last days….mmmmmmmm I can smell them right now!
My rugby coach one told me the best place to put your hands when they’re cold is either in your armpits, behind your knees,down the back of your pants, or inbetween your thighs…
On reflection this actually sounds more dubious than it should’ve…
God, I miss baring my thighs to the four winds and mud…
:shysmile:
Now I feel like I’ve spent a little time in Alaska today. Thanks.
Your puppy is very cute…
Hey, love the shots you posted! Very beautiful snow pictures. And to your question about hosting…the order goes by who joined when. If you just subscribed you’d be at the bottom of the list, but you get to choose a topic for everyone to do. I chose The Elements awhile ago and emailed the subject to the person who controls the Challenge. You, as host, just have to post a picture or however many you want. Thats all! Hope you have fun with it.
Looks like a frozen creature in the tree of the third shot.
Beautiful snow pictures! I am from Colorado, and I now live in North Carolina, so I miss the snow!!!!!!!!!!
wow. one of the things i miss about living in suburbia. surely winter won’t be like that here in the city.
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Those are great pictures. As damn cold as I know it must be, you sure live in a beautiful place.
You know, Kathy, thanks for giving me some new perspective. I am one of those who crowed loudest and longest about leaving this country after last year’s election. It is still a painful and often incomprehensible state of affairs. But your comment on the “dissidents” leaving, or wanting to leave, struck a chord. It’s the easy way out but I admit to longing for that. I still entertain dreams of leaving this place once I have my nursing degree. They need nurses in Canada as they do here, and that is a comforting thought. But you put it into perspective. I love this country, despite some (many) of the fucked up things going on here. My boyfriend is from Russia and, though he is as opposed to what’s going on here as many others are, he had the experience of growing up in a very different system, and he is happy to be here. Even now. Running at the mouth is comforting to me, but it’s not accomplishing jack shit. I appreciate what you have to say.
On that note, we had a 19 pound turkey and it was about the biggest bird I’ve ever seen! 23 pounds–wow. I hope you got some rest after all of that work, and I’m glad you, Doug, Fox, and everyone else got along and enjoyed your holiday. God bless you, and keep warm in that beautiful, frozen wilderness!
Those are beautiful … and suddenly I’m in the mood for pancakes for breakfast!
ryc: Well I do know the water is quite warm and smells really nice as well. I think it’s pretty much the same. WONDERFUL!
Cute snowbunnie in the tree branch there! Oh, and Frankie seems to be showing nesting behavior!
I really like the first picture because it has only a few colors within it. I am more a fan of black and white but I do like color, especially pictures that only showcase a few colors. Great work, by the way. -Colin