Frosty Wonders
Yet another day where it’s just 0°F and already 10am… yet the sun becons and the river calls. So layered up and camera in the pocket to keep the battery warm I head out.
Oh that kind of cold where the first breath in through the nose (to warm the air before hitting your lungs you know) and all the nostril hairs instantly freeze! and as the first breath is released into the air the steam catches on my eyelashes and freezes into miniature prisms that the sunlight dances on. YES it is a magical adventure already.
Down at the river the days of cold have formed a hard shell in the narrows but the river will not be tamed so easily and pushes past releasing waves of steam that dance on the open waters flowing in the sun, sparkeling with delight. The willows red/yellow stalks now coated in frosty ice shimmer in the morning sun fantastic fractals bursting off each stalk. Snow flakes or ice crystals captured on the frozen surface near the edge seem to dance in the sun. And a rock creature covered in the winter white blanket seems to venture tentatively into the mists dancing on the waters..
Ah yes toes and fingers loosing feeling but heart and soul dancing with the joy and wonders of sun, wind, water and earth– heading home for a mug of hot tea- smiling all the while behind the scarf keeping my nose warm. Even on the coldest of cold days the earth dances in the joy of life.
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