Water and Ice

The lake ice was breaking up, and DH brought a chunk into the house......

holding it up to the window, I could see the crystal perforations...... looking like glass rods fused together.....

I turned on the light for a different result....there seems to be a bug caught in the layers of ice

 all along the road, the ditches were filled with water, and ice

ice that looked fractured

and I could see the light reflections each fracture seemed to create

the snow was still in the bush, although it was slowly disappearing

Though the long driveway was now bare, winter was hanging on tightly

Rockman didn't seem to care that it was almost the end of April, and winter had not yet disappeared

puddles in the road wore icy cloaks, too

approaching the beaver dam, the water flowed swiftly, creating a loud roar I had heard  at the house for the last week

the thaw had begun

roiling and boiling over the granite below

 that bright white in the upper right is the glare of the sun on the frozen beaver dam

the water broke through the dam as the thaw had begun in the forest, but the ice prevented the beavers from stopping the leaks

and so the water pooled, and cascaded over the dam, over rocks

creating a world of water and ice....

 the white is the foaming water spewing from the breach in the dam

churning in small pools

and sweeping along the bedrock

flowing downhill past huge boulders to the lake

 over logs

 Spring is on the way!


Finally!





I hope that wherever you are, you are warm and dry and enjoying sunshine.

I have a houseguest staying with me and probably won't be online much over the next few days.




Thanks for visiting.

Hugs from Suz