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.

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

I mean it's like a law....right?

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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.

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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.

Manuels River

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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.

The exact time and date of breakup of the ice on the Yukon River has been recorded and bet on annually since 1896. A tripod is set up on the ice at Dawson upstream from Whitehorse, and connected by cable to a clock on the shore. When the ice starts moving, it takes the tripod with it and stops the clock, recording the official break up time. This year it was April 23 at 11:15 am, the earliest break-up on record. In Whitehorse the river was already starting to breakup in March.

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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

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.

Just looking off Front Street

About 75 square miles of ice broke up during an overnight windstorm and piled up in several places along the east shore of Bear Lake. This huge ice jam is on the Idaho side of the border and we have heard there are similar ice jams in Utah. Maybe I will find time to go there and see for myself.

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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.

The recent ice breakup deposited roughly 75 square miles of ice in several places along the Bear Lake shoreline in Idaho and Utah. The most spectacular place was here in Idaho where the ice stretches for miles.

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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.

A secret fills my soul, and a mystery fills my life.

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

My photograph 'Goodbye my lover' was used as album art for a song cover of Jeff Buckley's 'Last Goodbye' by musician Patrick Thomas!

Patrick is an extraordinarily talented musician & I'm beyond honored that he asked me to contribute art. I had never heard 'Last Goodbye' before & was completely astonished with how it perfectly represented the emotions I felt when I took that photograph.

To listen to Patrick's cover of 'Last Goodbye',click here.

I truly feel that forms of art can play off of each other to create an unbelievably powerful emotional experience.

This is one of them.

I send a warm thank you to Patrick Thomas for his compassion & gratitude!

Other websites you can find Patrick:

patrickthomas.net/

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