The freezing fog overnight created another gray and frosty day.
Frosty Pine
Picture of the Day for January 20, 2023
When exploring the ice formations, it was interesting to see so many different colors of ice especially the light blue ice falls. Course I was a little blue when my garage door was frozen down in ice and it took me a while to get the door open this morning.
Blue Ice
Picture of the Day for January 19, 2023
With the rain and snow the past weeks, it has been a little scary opening some doors to the outside when the temperature is near freezing and the snow pack start slide off the roofs. While standing under the curling wave of snow, you can almost picture yourself surfing inside a large wave tunnel. But instead you listening for any signs that the snow is going to break off and hit you on the head.
Curling Hanging Snow
Picture of the Day for January 18, 2023
While the large freighters may still be active on the other Great Lakes, the traffic is down to one ore carrier on Lake Superior since the Soo Locks closed earlier this week (although the closing was delayed by 10 hours until the last ship that was leaving Lake Superior was through the locks). The Saginaw is still making a few more load of iron ore pellets from the docks in Superior to the Sault Ste Marie area. This ship, the Algoma Guardian also came into Superior for ore but didn’t have to fight the ice in the harbor during July as compared to loading out in January. The Algoma Guardian is spending the winter at Goderich, ON until the Soo Locks reopens on March 25 after winter maintenance.
Algoma Guardian Arrival
Picture of the Day for January 17, 2023
Between the rain and snow, it wasn’t fun shoveling the heavy wet snow or trying to scrape the underlying ice off before the temperatures dropped again. I rather it was summer and the slippery surface I was trying to navigate was some slick river rocks to be able to get closer to the waterfall.
Slippery Crossing
Picture of the Day for January 16, 2023
This is typically the coldest week of the year where I live, but instead of being below zero temperatures it was warm enough for rain instead of snow. The rain falling on the snow packed roads and driveways polished the ice more so it was difficult to walk outside to enjoy the warmer day until later in the evening when it switched back snow concealing the ice patches. I rather see water in a stream falling over rapids in the summer than rain falling from the skies in January.
Lost Creek Number One
Picture of the Day for January 15, 2023
With the temperature finally above freezing again, the ice was dropping off the tree limbs so they are no longer sparkling in the sunlight like earlier in the week.
Icy Limbs
Picture of the Day for January 14, 2023
The sun made it appearance for a few hours in the morning to highlight the new frost that formed overnight. If you were under the branches when the wind picked up, you could think it was actually snowing as the frost fell.
Frosty Tree Again
Picture of the Day for January 13, 2023
The weather forecasters lied again as there was no sunshine today, so it would be a good day to curl up with a book on another gray, chilly winter day. The little free libraries have been popping up more and some are rather cute like this little library made to be a miniature of the building it is in front of.
Mini Building Library
Picture of the Day for January 12, 2023
There were some snowflake floating in the air today as the temperature dropped. And it will be a while before seeing some butterflies flitting around on some colorful blooming flowers instead of the white landscape.
Summertime Butterfly
