Winter weather has definitely continues this week, with cold, cold, COLD being the word of the week…followed closely by the word snow. Another week where sunshine wasn’t the norm, so lots of grey looking photos, but when the sun did appear it was absolutely brilliant! Between all the white snow and the ever-changing ice on the lake when the sun did make an appearance things sparkled! I also really noticed the intensity of the blue colours this week.
This hedge looks a bit like a cake or loaf with icing on top.
If you’ve never seen it, it can be hard to understand what blowing snow can look like here. The snow here hasn’t been shovelled or moved in any way - it’s just the wind that does this. As you can see, it’s bare ground in some places and right beside it is a drift knee-deep and deeper!
Same here. I had previously shovelled the strip and somehow it got no new snow whereas there’s a pile of snow to the right that’s mid-thigh deep.
Beautiful sunshine in the morning…but you can see the snow system building up over the lake!
“Day of White”
And this is what a snow squall looks like when it hits land. The photo above is looking south and that system had just passed over me. It was a ‘small’ one - the snow only lasted for about 10 minutes before the clouds moved on. And here comes round # 2 (photo below) … I’m standing in the same spot, now looking north at the next system coming.
Thought I’d put the car in the photo to give some perspective. And this is only one of several piles around the village. Soon the trucks will come to remove it.
A gentle purple shadow at sunrise this morning.
Wouldn’t this make a great skating rink…if it wasn’t quite so dangerous!
Peek-a-boo, I see you!
It never ceases to amaze me - our temperatures are around -20C and yet the lake still isn’t frozen!
As icicles above start to melt, they form more icicles down below.
Closed during lockdown - hoping to reopen again in a few weeks.
Most of us would consider snowmobiling a quite acceptable mode of transportation, but there’s some who didn’t get the memo!
Sunrise in the tree tops.
It was so cold this morning that in comparison the lake was warm…and covered with fog as the sun was rising. The photos don’t capture it - it was beautiful!
Bayfield’s ‘green streets’ don’t get quite as much traffic in the winter.
We had ice shards on the lake today. Very specific conditions needed for them to form - a very thin layer of ice on the top and a gentle wind that moves the ice just a little bit.
And a small sunset to end to week.
