Winter is breaking up with me again. She says she needs a rest from our relationship. She does this every year and breaks my heart. I should just move far away to someplace where she never shows up.....but I can't because I'm crazy about her. She'll be back...... I'll just wait. Sighhhhh

View from my street on the Ottawa River.

Vu de ma rue sur la Rivière des Outaouais.

7-image blend in Skylum Aurora HDR.

After an all day rain I was hoping for a bit of fog to add interest for this harbor scene. Unfortunately, as night fell, the fog dissipated and along with it, so did my imagined composition. Not wanting to leave with an empty memory card, I did grab a few shots of the ice breakup before it got too dark.

A year after we received Sara in our house, today she was adopted and left us. We will miss her a lot, but I hope she will be happy with her new family

Breaking up at Ironwood Hills :p

Every year the bean geese from Siberia come to us in the lower Rhine region of Germany for overwintering here.

Jedes Jahr kommen die Saatgänse aus Sibirien zu uns an den Niederrhein zum Überwintern.

piece of art

Please, View On ________ REAL _______ Black. Thank you.

There is a steady drip-drip-drip falling from our cabin roof, as the sun melts the snow that remains above us. The temperature's actually reach into the low forties as a daytime high and drop down into the twenties at night. The rivers are breaking up, and the inevitable potholes that dot our roadways have appeared, keeping drivers on their toes.

Doc and I sat on our porch this morning and watched as the mature camp robbers (gray jays) grabbed mouthfuls of suet and fed their little ones. A playful ermine darted about, taking a rest every now and then - on top of our truck tires - while round about him two squirrels were feeling amorous and were running up and down the tree trunks of the large willow trees just outside of our cabin.

I am sure the bears are waking up now, and introducing their newborns to the magical world outside of their dark and musky winter dens. We will now be on the lookout for new tracks left behind in the snow to determine who our latest visitors are. Alaska is finally awakening after months of cold and darkness, and we Alaskans are rejuvenated by it and ready to take on summer and all it has to offer.

The signs of the winter breakup are now long gone. Our temperature is double digit and we are enjoying the sun. Spring has sprung and we are once again out of the hibernation stage.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK5u5W8afc&t=1s

A number of weeks ago when I was in Banff, Lake Minnewanka was showing signs that spring was on it's way

Manuels River

CBS, NL

Boat graveyard at Pin Mill, on the river Orwell in Suffolk.

Thompson River

Kamloops, B.C.

I hadn't been right down to the shore at this part of the river in quite a while. I didn't realize how much ice was still on it. It's been warm, 10 C or higher, but it's going to take a while for all this ice to go. In the meantime, it's fun to watch little mini-icebergs floating along in the current.

Just looking off Front Street

Not all of the discussion that happen on the boardwalk are good ones. This one didn't end well and the first thing that came to mind was they were planning on having a great cruise together, and then the big break up came.

No Kings protest, Fresno, Ca.

I'm basically a pacifist and do not support violence, but it seems to me that America is barreling toward some sort of internecine war and a complete breakup. There are too many fundamentally unworkable factors built into the constitution to permit going forward another hundred years. And as if that were not enough, we've watched the rich people and corporate entities capture the government to the detriment of the entire world.

August 2015.

Nikon 58/1.4G

I love seeing the creeks and streams opening to reveal the beautiful glacial colors of the water that have been hidden beneath the snow all winter. It is still hovering around the freezing mark each morning - but the streams are now flowing, and I am ready to go out and hit the trails.

Vertical four-image stack.

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#LoveAndLoss

#EmotionalSilence

#CinematicMood

#BrokenJourney

#LonelyTrainStation

#DepartureAndLoss

#SilentGoodbye

#MelancholicBeauty

#LostLove

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mendenhall lake

Shelf ice at Indiana Dunes State Park.

Rained all day and by evening the clouds began to break up and let the sun through here and there.

Wᥱ trιᥱd so hᥲrd, ᥲᥒd got so fᥲr... Bᥙt ιᥒ thᥱ ᥱᥒd ιt doᥱsᥒ't ᥱvᥱᥒ mᥲttᥱr.

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Hair: Foxy - Insomnia @Salem

Neon sign- FoxCity - Be Fine sign @Uber

{Anc} ghost butterflies @Uber

Voigtlander 21mm 1.8 Ultron VM

I went back to Bear Lake again today to photograph the spring ice breakup with a group from our camera club. The overcast sky opened up just long enough for a few good shots.

It didn't come as a whisper,

it came as thunder.

It exploded in my throat

like glass from within.

I held it back so much

that I learned to smile with broken teeth,

to dress my rage

in Sunday best.

But today,

let it go.

I opened the doors for it,

I released it like a fasting wolf,

like a blade laughing in flight.

And what a relief,

seeing the world tremble to the beat of my fury!

What a delight

to break what was never mine!

My hands trembled,

not with fear,

but with joy:

the cruel music of relief

is the most sincere I've ever played.

Now I understand volcanoes.

They are not born to be silent.