I like to ponder situations and environs when they are caught with different looks, feels. Apple trees coated with ice. A comfortable home caught in an ice-lock without power for nine days. That was us in '98. An upheaval on the job that tosses your day up on end at 6:50 AM. An emergency on the road where split-second decisions can sometimes have lives in the balance. Put humans and or nature, for that matter, in a cloak of difference and the results most often bring forth resilience.
Next April, life comes back in this apple grove... stronger.
It always does.
I do have a touch of 'wintery image' envy Birdman... all this blue sky and sunshine out here in Perth gets a wee bit monotonous now and then :) hope you had wonderful Christmas!
ReplyDeleteA very different Winter compared with the one in Haninge. This looks like the real deal.
ReplyDeletebrrr.
ReplyDeleteI'm told Portland didn't get hit so hard. My Portland visitor just came up & was shocked at this frozen ice covered land...Said it started north of Wiscasset. Many trees here bowed over...some broken...More snow to come...
ReplyDeleteStill about 5,000 w/o power statewide. We're ice-coated here but full power.
DeleteI hate to think about all those people without power in such freezing temperatures. You northerners are a tough bunch!
ReplyDeleteBrrrrr. I do hope the apples come back! Doesn't look good, though!
ReplyDeleteAnother beautiful shot.
ReplyDeleteResilience, maybe. Large parts of trees in our area break and fall to the ground (often through electric wires). People make mistakes. Do the best you can.
ReplyDeleteHowever it is a wonderful shot...Such a cold winter will come to us later...I do hope the apples survive it...
ReplyDeleteIce storms are beautiful but raise all kinds of problems.
ReplyDeleteWe still have about 10,000 homes without power in Toronto. Some may not have it back until after New Year's.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful tangle of click-clack icy branches. And re: the 'cloak of difference' -- are you saying you *like* upheaval . . .or, less drastic, a change of perspective?
ReplyDeleteThose apple trees look like they are suffering from the weight of the ice. You might update this photo in April.
ReplyDeleteIce is always such eye candy, but causes such trouble.
ReplyDeleteThe apple trees will be just fine. They have gone through this for millennia.
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