Saturday Photo: Happy New Year

 

Saturday Photo: Stars...

Season's Greetings, and all that.

Here's a link to my Christmas blog, in which there is much about stars...including the sun.  https://soderstromyule.blogspot.com/
 

Saturday Photo: Ice Doesn't Reflect

 

Maybe you knew this, but I didn't.  Ice doesn't reflect  the same way that waer does. 

This morning at the Lachine Rapids, it was chilly and windy, but the terempuerature was above freezing. Nevertheless, there was a thin layer of ice on part of the pond, enough to support a few gulls, and to interfere with the reflections of the trees surrounding it.

 There is a message there, I'm sure, but it's been a busy couple of days and I can't entertain any weighty thoughts at all... It's like my brain as is frozen as that still portion of pond.  

Saturday Photo: Winter Wonderland

 Great snow for sledding this week.  A shame it is raining now, but for a while the kids (most of whose teachers are on strike) had a lot of opportunity for playing outside.

Saturday Photo: Winter Flowers

 One of the sadder things about winter here is the disappearance of flowers.  After the leaves have changed colour and fallen off the trees, the world is much drabber.  And if the snow has not fallen, there's not even the splendour of sunlight on a white landscape with a blue sky as a backdrop.

 

Except...except people fight back with flowers in windows.  These geraniums were peeking out from a window in le Vieux Québec the last time we were there.  A brave and cheering sight.