Ice and Cold Autumn

[felis_lupus]

Ice Detail 1
Originally uploaded by gshower7

It's cold. Winter is coming, the weather people are predicting snow for Friday. Our wreaths and balsam kissing balls are coming in tomorrow, Christmas trees (whimper) arriving this weekend, and we still have a dozen properties with leaves all over their yards.

Spent today (and am spending tomorrow) at a property on Sebago Lake, raked the lawn, and fed the Billy Goat all the piles (great fun, really, watching a HUGE pile of leaves get sucked up into a shredder... muahaha), and am now the proud owner of several new calluses and blisters. Owie.

BUT! There was some excellent opportunity for photography... water had frozen most interestingly in some depressions down by the lake, and the light was lovely to catch the oak trees that have finally changed across the lake. Amazing that they still have leaves on them, really, what with the wind and rain of the last couple weeks.

I rather like these three (for nightpaws, especially):
Sebago Lake, Oaks & Beech
Oaks and Pines
Reflections

There are some more really cool frozen puddle shots under the photo link... check 'em out. :)

Comments

[nightpaws.livejournal.com]

Thanks Gen! Those are awesome! I love the Sebago Lake shots- such a nice area. :D I do miss the Oaks something fierce during the fall now.

I can't believe it's so close to Thanksgiving and I still sort of shock seeing all the Xmas stuff going up and getting stocked everywhere.

The ice pictures came out really well! I haven't run across nice ice since Hunting season back in September. It all froze over and snowed so fast. We've been hovering around 0 for the past few days up here. Had some nice fluffy snow today tho- yay!!!

I should run out and get pictures of the sun and stuff during the day. It's SO pretty and I still can't get over the "high noon" sun hanging at what I'm used to seeing as 3 or 4 o'clock position.

[felis-lupus.livejournal.com]

BRRR!! Too cold for me! I'm glad you got some nice fluffy snow though. :) I think that once we have snow, it needs to snow just a half inch or so every night, just to keep things nice and white and pretty. :)

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

That is a really tremendous photo. Thanks for sharing.

[felis-lupus.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it. :) I love the little bubbles, and the ridges in the ice itself where it froze at different times/levels.