Lake Erie: February 13, 2010

Port Stanley: East side – 10:45 AM. Cleo checks things out on a calm and beautiful, morning. 

Port Stanley: East side – 4:30 PM. The gentle movement of the water has split the ice. There is no way to describe the sound the Lake is making - a natural symphony. 

Port Stanley: East side – 4:30 PM.

Port Stanley: East side – 4:30 PM. For me it's always about the subtlety of colour and pattern easily on a par with any good abstract work of art.

Lake Erie: February 12, 2010

Port Stanley: East side – 10:15 AM.

Port Stanley: East side – 10:15 AM.

Ron's Back Yard: 11:30AM.

                           

Ron's Back Yard: 11:30AM. There were small clusters of Mergansers here and there on the frigid water. Didn't seem to bother them.

 

Ron's Back Yard: 11:30AM.

Lake Erie: February 11, 2010

Port Stanley: East side at lake level - 1:45 PM.

Port Stanley: East side – 3:45 PM. Patterns in the ice.

 

Port Stanley: Harbour – 4:45 PM.

Lake Erie: February 10, 2010

Port Stanley: East side – 10:45 AM.

Port Stanley: East side – 4:45 PM.

Port Stanley: East side – 10:45 AM.

                             

Port Stanley: East side – 4:45 PM. Same locations, only a few hours apart but quite a difference. That's what I love about this exercise.

Lake Erie: February 09, 2010

Port Stanley: Main Beach – 4:15 PM. Another mound of broken-glass ice just off the beach - yes, the beach is under there somewhere. 

Port Stanley: East side at lake level - 4:30 PM. The snow has been presistant since early afternoon. These broken-glass sheets are the size of large plate glass windows. They are clanking together in the waves. 

Port Stanley: East side at lake level - 4:30 PM. Another tree takes the plunge.

Lake Erie: February 08, 2010

Port Stanley: East side – 3:45 PM. I can't begin to tell you about the sound the lake was making, struggling under the ice - deep, echoing, metallic.

Port Stanley: East side – 3:45 PM.

Port Stanley: East side – 3:45 PM. Another day of sunshine and cold. However - the birds are starting to be very sassy. Spring's coming - hang in there. 

Lake Erie: February 07, 2010

Port Stanley: East side – 10:30 AM. Still cold, cold, cold - but then it's February and this isn't the Bahamas.

Port Glasgow: 2:15 PM.

Port Glasgow: 2:15 PM. The mounds of white in the foreground are ice. The lake was still enough in the cold to skin over in a sheet of thin ice. The motion of the Lake, gently heaving like the belly of a sleeping animal, snapped the ice into pieces like broken window panes. The breeze was slight and only tossed it in piles rather than pulverize it into slush as it would when the wind is wild.

Port Stanley: Erie Rest, taken in 1993. This is a photo I took several years ago and better illustrates what I spoke of above. The sound of this is astonishing, very much like mounds of broken glass tinkling together in the quiet movement of the water.