Sometimes in winter one day drifts into the next in a gray sameness–but not this week. The light shifted, the texture of the snow changed, the icicles grew, twisted, smoothed. Every hour had its own cold beauty.
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Mama Nature’s Glassworks
Posted on January 30, 2011
Torch Lake Views 
connie Claar
January 30, 2011
Loved the slideshow, Gerry.
Connie
Gerry
January 30, 2011
Thank you, Connie. They’re fun to put together.
Lauren
January 31, 2011
The snow snake is my favorite!
P.j. grath
January 31, 2011
Lovely, Gerry! I especially like the unexpected garland on the branch.
Gerry
January 31, 2011
Now, see, here is the part I love. Lauren saw a snow snake and PJ saw a garland and I almost left that photo out of the slideshow because it wasn’t icy. Then I thought about consistency being the hobgoblin etc. and left it in. A good thing, too, I see.
flandrumhill
January 31, 2011
Now why do you think icicles get that twisted look sometimes? It probably has to do with the speed at which the Snow Queen draws them out with her fingers.
Gerry
January 31, 2011
Well, your explanation is more fun than mine, but I will hazard it anyway. I think that icicles that have been frosted by snow develop those ridges and then when the sun hits them, the snowmelt flows around in a spiral rather than straight down. Either that or Nisser!
Fee
January 31, 2011
Brrrrrrrr
No snow or ice here, but the temperature has dropped a fair bit, and we may get some white stuff before the weekend.
Stay cosy, Gerry.
Gerry
January 31, 2011
Morning, Fee! I have an image of you swathed in woolly scarves from head to tiny feet. Keep warm! We have thawed out a bit—all the way up to 16°—so we are feeling relatively frisky. Give me a few hours of sunshine and I’m a new woman.
Karma
February 1, 2011
Snow snake! Cool, I love it!
We have very similar looking outside views these days, Gerry. It appears Michigan is being left out of this current storm that is pummeling the Northeast and parts of the Midwest?
Gerry
February 1, 2011
Shhhh . . . we’re trying to be very quiet. We are having a lovely sunny minute on the shores of Grand Traverse Bay. It would be OK with me if it stayed that way. Of course, there could be a howling blizzard five miles from here and I’d never know until I tried to go over there and got lost in the whiteout.
Nye
February 1, 2011
Gerry, where you live looks so remote, are you far from town? I would stock up plenty of food and books to get me through the cold winter months. 🙂
Gerry
February 1, 2011
Hmm. Define “remote.” I am 17 miles from Charlevoix, 17 miles from Elk Rapids, 8 miles from Central Lake, but walking distance to Sonny’s in one direction or the Eastport Market in the other! And only 4 miles to Providence Farm. It only really feels remote when I get stuck in my own driveway.
isathreadsoflife
February 6, 2011
Superb and poetic slideshow ! I love the second picture and of course this piece of cloth left on a branch and that got frozen during the night 😉
Gerry
February 6, 2011
Thank you, Isa. I gather you don’t believe in snowsnakes, but I assure you that I have heard them hissing in the woods on warm days!