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Eliza Waters 
Thanks for the photos to remind me of winter’s beauty.
Thank you, Ellen. These frequent storms have blanketed our world so beautifully. The sunny days are dazzling!
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Thank you for reblogging!
This looks both serene and beautiful!
Thank you, Anne. Definitely both! 🙂
A good composition
Thank you, Derrick.
Lovely vignette. I like the way the tree shadows make the snow look more active, as though it’s cascading in to the river
Thank you, Allison. I like that impression, it does seem that way. 🙂
It looks so tranquil Eliza. Good to see you are getting blue skies and sunshine too! Have you noticed the days getting longer? 😃
Oh, yes, longer days are definitely on my radar! I slog through until Imbolc, and then I can make it through the rest of the winter… I need my Vit.D. 🙂 We’ve been getting a series of storms with sun in-between, a nice balance. Another 4″ yesterday, makes everything sparkle this morning. Magical!
Beautiful shot, and I like the header too.
Thank you, Judy!
Beautiful shot, Eliza!
Thank you, Julie! x
Beautiful! The serenity of winter…
Thank you, Barbara. All the snow recently has been simply beautiful indeed!
Light and shadow, ice and water. I would be tempted to try walking across the ice, foolishly.
Thanks, Hien. One of the first things we are taught as kids… don’t go there! 😉
This is wonderful snow. It has the appearance of half-whipped cream, when the peaks are just beginning to form.
Thank you, Linda. The snow has been perfect so far, still nice and fluffy!
Lovely! Does it ever freeze over?
Thank you, Laurie. While during cold years, the ice can get a foot thick, the channels rarely freeze. While most of the river is shallow, there are pools that I wouldn’t test! As kids, we were taught to steer clear of ice, a wise lesson I’ve always heeded.
You bet! Too much moving water.
magnificent shadow play on the snow
Merci!
So much beauty in this shot! The traveling water, the shadows on the snow, the colors!! ❤️
Thank you, Donna! 🙂 All the snow we’ve been getting has been lovely.
Love this photo. Makes me want to know what is around the bend. It’s really a good idea to steer clear of ice with running water underneath. I’m sure it is rarely thick enough to hold up a person. My mom and I once ventured out onto our farm pond on a particularly cold winter day. All was good until the ice “fell.” I surmised that the water level had dropped a little and so, when we got on it, the ice settled back on top. But, it scared both of us to death. Mom panicked and just stood there. I had to go back out and retrieve her. LOL All was well, but we learned our lesson.
Thank you, Vicki. What a scare that must have been! The threat of hypothermia is enough to keep me off of ice. Sadly, I’ve personally known two people who fell into cold water, one didn’t make it. 😦
That is sad. It is definitely safer to just stay on firm ground.
Beautiful.
MJ
Thank you, MJ!
Such a lovely shot, Eliza! Of course it makes me shiver with the imagined cold, but it won’t be long before the water will be running again (at least, I’m hanging onto that thought!)
Thank you, Debbie. The warm temps of March will melt it fairly quickly and a good rain will lift and wash it all away. 🙂
Yet another lovely spot in Massachusetts. The sy has been gorgeous blue.
🤭 ‘sky’
Thanks, Alice. I’ve been grateful for those blue-sky days between storms. 🙂
Shoreacres has nailed it with whipped cream. I love the stripes too. It doesn’t look like a single creature has passed by.
Thank you, Susan. I expect they are out there somewhere!
It lovely and I’m glad to see that not all the water is frozen!
Thanks, Kris. The channels are usually running too fast to freeze. 🙂
Just lovely
Thank you, Karina. 🙂
Beautiful snow image Eliza! Enjoyed seeing it!
Thank you, Reed!
I love how a stream is still a stream, whatever ice and snow does to it. Beautiful photo.
Thank you, Adele. 🙂 I like how you can see where the fastest water is, which isn’t as apparent in warmer weather.
I just adore that blue! What a beautiful and peaceful picture.
Thank you, Agnes!
I like to see a bit of open water in the winter. Lovely photo, Eliza!
Thank you, Belinda! I’ve been enjoying the wintry days, both snowy and brilliantly sunny, a nice mix.
Gorgeous! Love the shadows.
Thank you, Irene!
Your up “river” scene of mostly snow is magical! 🙂
Thank you, Joanne. We’re getting a ‘real’ winter at last. 🙂
So beautiful Eliza.
Thank you, Sylvia!
Love rivers in the winter and you captured it beautifully!
Thank you, Susan!
Such a beautiful winter scene. Wonderful capture, Eliza. 🙂
Thank you, Robin!
More nice shadows on the frozen river. I bet there is some nice ice in your waterfall about now. 0° +/- tonight.
Yes, the ice, and now snow, have nearly covered all except for a few pockets here and there. She’s gone quiet again. 🙂
How blue the snow looks in the shadows.
Yes, one of my favorite aspects of snow cover– I love those soft, blue shadows.
Beautifully for winter of Snowflake river photo shoot. Good work of photography. I like.
Thank you!
Strange somehow to think of the water running under the ice apart from the central channel that is. I wonder if the animals know to steer clear of the ice? The photo really draws one in.
Thank you, Carol. We do see animals tracking along the sides, like coyote and fox. Today we saw otter tracks between channel openings, probably the same one that slid around our waterfall.
Around a decade ago, a deer must have slid on the ice while pursued by coyotes and it cost her her life. It was amazing to see how after only a week, the only thing left was her skull. Nature wastes nothing.
It must be engrossing to see and read the tracks.
Poor deer. I wonder what was likely to have eaten the bones (apart from the skull)?
Coyotes primarily, we heard them yapping every night for a week until it was all gone. Crows and sometimes fox might snag a tidbit once the coyotes moved off at dawn.
Oh that is interesting that coyotes can digest bones – hyena-style by my frame of reference 🙂
How marvellous to hear them at night, although I know that not everyone likes wild carnivores.
Coyotes RARELY attack humans (they have been known to try to take toddlers, so parents need to stay wary in coyote areas). Even though a call nearby can raise the hair on my neck, I don’t worry about them. They will run away from humans, they know better to steer clear of these dangerous animals! 😉
And then it got really cold!!!
Yes, we’ve been getting a ‘real’ winter this year! 🙂
This river, (beautiful by the way) looks somewhat like the creek that borders my little slice of suburbia. 🙂
There are coyote and mink (maybe otters) – I also get some deer though they mostly stay on the utility easement side of the creek.
Thank you, Jules. It is nice to see tracks of our fellow inhabitants, diversity most welcome!
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