Living beside the sea with its salt-laden air, on those rare occasions when snow and ice deign to grace us with their whiteness, it tends to be sparse and not last much beyond dawn. How then to find a photo for #2019picoftheweek challenge: Frozen?
Upton Staithe lies silent beneath its cover of ice: 20th |Jan 2017
Two winters back, the day being bright and the camera new, I caught the bus inland to Acle, thence a walk through to the riverside village of Upton, in the hopes of finding something snap-worthy at this barren season. Lo!
For details of #2019picoftheweek challenge see MariaAntonia
crispina kemp 
Very nice. I’m in northern California and it doesn’t snow here either
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Oh, it does sometimes snow. It just doesn’t stay. Though that sa;t-laden air plays havoc with cars and anything else of corrodible metal.
BTW: the photo was taken a mere 8 miles inland.
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That is lovely. You want ice? I’ll give you ice. LOTS AND LOTS of it 😉
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I thank you, but I’d rather you kept it. 🙂
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Really, it’s no problem, I’d love to share. Don’t want to be egotistical and all that…
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And I don’t want to come across as the poor and needy back-country cousin. You know, though I feel it’s tempting fate to say it, I do live in God’s blessed country. (And no, God, you didn’t hear me say that; you don’t have to send me a flood. I am fully appreciative of what you’ve already given us.) 🙂
I know both Canada and the States are getting it bad, and I do feel for you, And don’t say you’re all used to it, cos that’s not the answer.
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Honestly, I sometimes wonder why I stay… oh right. Because ALL my family is here…
We might be “used” to it, but we freely bitch about it daily. And by the way, it’s bloody snowing. Again.
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Yea, I’ve seen the forecasts for the coming week. You’re due for more of that polar vortex. In fairness, we did get caught into tha vortex last year. I distinctly remember those arctic gales howling through every gap in my windows and doorframs (great living in a place built early C17th!).
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I can only imagine the cold seeping through a 17th century building… Brrrr.
Last year we had twice the amount of snow and yes, there was that cold spell (Vortex is so over-used, eh?) but this year it feels endless.
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So can we call it the whizzy wind that has strayed from it’s usual circumpolar path to terrorise the rest of us (on;y this yeat, not me) 🙂 Perhaps if we gathered together a parcel of hounds and a legion of men with hefty sticks, they could batter the recalcitrant whizzy wind back into place. (Okay, is that too much imagination?)
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LOVE IT! That is why you are the writer!
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I thank you. And I don’t smoke the funny stuff anymore. Jeez!
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Ya don’t need to! I think I may have to steel your phrase… – no worries, I shall definitely give you credit as is your due…
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Aw, shucks, I thank you, Dale. 🙂
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😀
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That ice IS blue! The whole photo is making me cold. 🙂
And for some reason, I want to climb into the picture and take a walk on that ice. (Although, I probably wouldn’t dare, just in case I fell through!)
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I doubt it was particularly thick. The village had caught a sharp frost overnight. But by the time I got there it only remained where the sun didn’t shine. In town … nothing.
I took several photos, including a rather fascinating puddle on a farm track. Wonderful murky colours!
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The color of the blue ice is amazing — such depth to it! I wouldn’t have realized it was ice without you saying so and looking more closely. It looks almost magical: you got it in just the right light.
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That blue is a reflection of the blue sky, paler of course near the horizon where, in that photo, it can mostly be seen. But I think also the state of the water, absolutely still, helps to deepen the colour (this is a staithe, water gently flows in from the river, but then goes nowhere). And of course, the sun-defying trees, without which that ice would have melted. I’ve other photos taken that day, but I don’t like flashing up the registration of boats and cars on the Web. Tantamount to invasion of privacy. 🙂
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Good point about the car and boat registration. You could use photo software to blur them out. I use GIMP, which is free. Takes a little getting used to and I’m still no expert, but it’s super useful for getting rid of modern bits in otherwise Eneana-friendly photos that I find online.
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Yea, the software I use would do it. I just prefer not. Obviously, if it was a super-doper must-use photo I’d do it. Otherwise not. But thanks for the thought. 🙂
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That is an amazing shade of blue. This photo evokes coldness. I now need a cup of tea to warm up 🙂
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🙂
As I’ve explained in the comments above, that intense blue was courtesy of an equally vivid blue sky (alas, faded to pale along the horizon) plus those trees protected the water from the sun’s glare. Then the ice froze it all in. BTW, there was no great depth of ice. Perhaps a frew inches. I would not have risked walking on it!
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I wouldn’t have risked walking on it either! 🙂
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Memories of childhood escapades! I’d have horror to see any child do it now.
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