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.

Mount Nemrut is a 2,134-metre-high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

It is one of the highest peaks in the east of the Taurus Mountains.

It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. The entry states: The mausoleum of Antiochus I (69–34 B.C.), who reigned over Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates after the breakup of Alexander's empire, is one of the most ambitious constructions of the Hellenistic period. The syncretism of its pantheon, and the lineage of its kings, which can be traced back through two sets of legends, Greek and Persian, is evidence of the dual origin of this kingdom's culture.

Breaking up at Ironwood Hills :p

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

pinhole

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.

Manuels River

CBS, NL

piece of art

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.

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.

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

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

:::... Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ...:::

S O L O

Solo

Innocent and delicate.

I'm tired of pretending.

I'm done...

What do you do every day? Where are you? Did you eat? Goodnight.

Baby. Darling. Honey. I miss you.

It's all useless.

You got me like (oh, oh, oh)

This is not a touching

Love story (oh, oh, oh)

No romance, no sincerity (oh, oh, oh)

Sorry, but

I’m not sorry.

From today...

I'm a shining solo

I’m going solo

Used to be your girl

Now I’m used to being the GOAT

You’re sittin’ on your feelings

I’m sittin’ on my throne

I ain’t got no time for the troubles in your eyes

This time I’m only lookin’ at me, myself and I

I’m goin' solo, I’mma do it on my own now

Now that you’re alone, got you lookin’ for a clone now

So low that’s how I’m gettin’ down

Destined for this and the crown

Sing it loud like

This is not a touching

Love story

No romance, no sincerity

Sorry, but

I’m not sorry.

From today...

I'm a shining solo

I’m going solo

After the relationship, romance, emotion there's

Breakup, tears, regret, longing.

I like being alone, because I have to be honest with myself.

Like a free wind...

Like the stars above the clouds...

I want to go far away, I want to shine brightly!

Showing unmistakable and considerable signs of spring thaw, the Robertson River, flowing north out of the Alaska Range is always by it's glacial nature slow to break up.

Here it is showing first signs of spring, with glacial water upwelling to the surface, making the very dense and airless glacial ice underneath glow with turquoise color, which is typical of glaciers.

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

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.

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

August 2015.

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.

Nikon 58/1.4G

Shelf ice at Indiana Dunes State Park.

mendenhall lake

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Vertical four-image stack.

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

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.