How’s this for a winterish picture?
The carp pond has partially frozen, confusing the ducks.
I was surprised to see the carp swimming around under the frozen surface. Someone had thrown rocks at the pond’s surface, trying to break the ice, but it’s frozen enough to hold. The fish look surreal under the rocky ice layer!
Wherever you are, I hope you’re staying warm. Happy Thursday.
As I’ve noted here before, Penticton is one of two communities in the world that’s sandwiched between two lakes. The other is Interlaken, Switzerland.
I usually post pictures of the considerably larger Okanagan Lake which is very close to where I live.
Although smaller, Skaha Lake which is situated on the southern end of town, is equally impressive if very cold right now.
Although we are fortunately still above freezing and are enjoying a string of sunny days, as you can probably tell the wind is quite cold and you definitely wouldn’t want to go swimming!
To those of you who are coping with the extremely cold temperatures that are hitting large portions of North America right now, stay safe (and warm).
A single duck …
… paddles through a blushing world …
… after a crystalline winter day.
Happy Tuesday,
The recent cooler temperatures have provided some lovely and wintery, pink-toned, clear skies.
A rosy evening lake …
… and some waning blue sky …
… lead to the day’s beautiful close.
Winter elegance and allure.
The Canada geese were standing on the beach contemplating the water and very dubious about going in. They’re always so good at showing their displeasure.
The wind had started up and they were feeling chilly, it seems. I really didn’t blame them. Finding a good evening roost seemed like a much better idea.
Despite the wind we had a lovely sunny day with lots of people round and about enjoying the Frost Fest.
Happy Sunday.
We are supposed to be getting clear skies but cold temperatures over the next couple of days, the result of a so-called “polar vortex” (really? do we need to add drama to the weather? as we know, the weather is quite capable of providing its own drama without the ridiculous names). Nevertheless, and with all due respect to Shakespeare, something frigid this way comes. I saw it arriving yesterday afternoon.
The heavy valley cloud was being forced out by a very brisk, cold wind blowing out of the north that was also causing whitecaps on the lake. Brrr.
Although we still had 5C (41F) out, it really felt much, much colder, the result of that chilling wind.
Even though we are supposed to drop to about -5C (23F), an advantage is that we are supposed to get very clear, sunny days. After all the overcast that will be nice, even though the winter clothing layers will need to increase.
Happy weekend.
Blowing in the Wind This pampas grass caught my attention with the wind blowing it around. While I wouldn’t call it colorful, it is a nice wintertime…
Blowing in the Wind
A lovely winter photo from Allan J Jones Photography. Please click the link above to see more of Allan’s beautiful landscape pictures.
It’s really winter now …
… but there was enough of a cloud break …
… for a slightly pink blush.
Happy Saturday.
A lovely light through the bare trees …
… lends warmth and colour to our January overcast.
Happy Friday.
We have an abundance of these berries everywhere around town and with all the seasonal decorations now being packed away …
… these lend some much needed colour to our winter landscape.
Happy Sunday.
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