BRRRR photos

This entry was posted by Elizabeth Hill on Wednesday, 6 January, 2010 at

Things have been bright and white and cold in Whiterock valley as of late….

Temperatures hovering around zero for days on end

We’ve been graced or blasted, sometimes I feel both ways, by two tremendous snowstorms, one accompanied by ice.

It has just started to snow again this morning, another blizzard has arrived!

snow and ice and snowSnow and ice and sun make for an unyielding landscape, washed of any color, covered in bright reflective cold

If snow blankets the land during winter, what does this ice do? Envelop, smother, shroud?  The silence of the outside during winter has been broken by the trees themselves, transformed to wind chimes by their icy coating.

Ice on trees at Whiterock Conservancy Standing in the middle of winter’s day is lonely for those of us who relish the spectrum of light’s wavelengths

The simplicity of whites and grays and blacks, they contrast so starkly, sometimes blinding, sometimes boring.

Sun through icy trees

I savor those few sublime moments before and after sunrise and sunset