The pink sunset adds some color to the white landscape but it also reveals the lingering ice on the limbs.
Pink Ice Glow
Picture of the Day for December 5, 2013
After several dark, snowy and rainy days, it is nice to see the sun but the sun is deceiving as it is very cold out and it also reveals the ice coated limbs that you only hear rattling in the dark.
Icy Morning
Picture of the Day for November 5, 2013
When I looked outside this morning, the ground was white but at least it was only frost and since it was clear enough to form frost, you knew the sun would be up soon to melt the frost away. Tomorrow could be white with snow so I will take the frost instead of snow even if the frost probably felt heavy on the fallen leaves.
Heavy Frost
Picture of the Day for April 24, 2013
On April 24, 1916, Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organize a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance. After four rescue attempts, Shackleton made it back to Elephant Island on August 30.
The Endurance became trapped in the Weddell Sea in February 1915 and the expedition had to abandon ship at the end of October. The ice condition made it difficult to travelthan a mile a day so the party camped on the ice waiting for the ice to breakup. Finally in April 1916 the crew made it to Elephant Island and remained there until their rescue in August. It would be more than 40 years before the first crossing of Antarctica was achieved, by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955–58.
After some icy winter days here, there is no way I want to endure the Antarctic ice!
Icy Tree
Picture of the Day for April 15, 2013
The RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg the previous evening just before midnight during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City.
Yesterday it wasn’t an ice berg, but ice did cause a ‘sinking’ when the power lines and trees became encased in ice. When the heavy limbs broke from the freezing rain, it took power lines down causing a power outage.
The remaining passengers and crew aboard the Titanic when she sank were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of only 28°F. Almost all of those in the water died of hypothermia, cardiac arrest, or drowning within minutes. Even though the temperature was below freezing yesterday, at least my house didn’t get that cold before the power was restored.
Icy Day
Picture of the Day for January 30, 2013
What is an eerie noise that sounds like rain is actually the icy limbs rattling in the wind and it makes you wonder how many limbs are going to break under the weight of the ice. And can be sort of pretty to look at and it seems like snowflakes, the ice creates a unique form on every needle, branch and limb. It appears every needle on the pine tree was encased by the ‘pretty ice’.
Unique Ice
Picture of the Day for January 29, 2013
It is strange hearing thunder and watching the snow light up with the lightning on a winter night. And while that might be pretty to watch, seeing the freezing rain was not and now it is very difficult walk on the slippery ice and the trees are coated with ice.
Icy Trees
