Who can resist looking into the depths of a fire? Always changing, always the same, potential power. Fires are almost hypnotic. Running water is the same way.
Lately, I have decided that still water is the same too... and when I mean still, I mean frozen. Well, the same and different. Snow and ice. Snow falls, coats the land, blown around by wind, melts, crystallizes, packs, and sublimates. It's potential power is not as obvious as fire (heat) or water (temperature as well as kinetic and gravitational potential energy). Maybe I shouldn't even call it potential energy but it is does have a potential to change. Plus, every day the same snow looks different. In every place the snow looks different. I remember going out in the marsh behind our house when I was in high school, and taking picture after picture of snow and ice. Landscapes, and close ups. Trapped bubbles, crystals, icicles, and packed snowmen. The changes in snow/ice are slower than in fire and running water but they are no less captivating.
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| Snow Crystals on Ice in Indiana |
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| Graupel in Wyoming |
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You need a caption on each picture stating where it was taken :)
ReplyDeleteGood pictures by the way.
Thanks for documenting the wheres. But you should have at least a couple of MA especially since you mention taking pictures! :)
ReplyDeleteI know. I felt a little guilty for not having any, but I didn't use my camera there, so I don't have those pictures.
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