lines.
kami-ito
wound off the skein onto cardstock
ready for weaving.
ice
 icescape
 landskeins iced over
 ice broken
 warming ice
 plant lines
 old grasses
 ice fissure
galacial
 big ice becoming stream
again.
the outlet from trout lake 
here.
view from the road.
alder cones illuminated 
ever so little.
 ice outlet
 letting go the water
 leaving an ice gown
 petticoat
 the snow, the ice, the changes this winter
from 27 below to 60 above.
and today, an ice driveway.
 sweet setter gwen is saying goodbye, little by little
here and not so much
like the ice.

















beautiful reflections on the beauty of the cold in your north country bound with the bittersweet of letting go
ReplyDeleteI love your brilliant sky. and send hugs for your friend setter. It is a very hard thing to even think of saying goodbye.
ReplyDeletewatching the ice come and go here too, saying goodbye to old friends is so hard
ReplyDeletemy friends above, it's lovely that you three get it. all.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful images
ReplyDeleteindia, thank you. your words came in whilst i struggled mightily to complete a NYS grant application, i may have uttered an oath or two all the while.
ReplyDeleteGlorious ice and snow meditation right to the Petticoat of tree root. How delicate your expression of Gwens fading. Love to you and to the receding ice as well as dear Gwen
ReplyDeleteMichelle Slater
Lovely photos of nature changing with the weather loved it
ReplyDeletekathy
Beautiful poem of a post. Expecting those trees draped in flowing crystal frocks to slide across the ice together in a winter dance. (spent a piece of today looking at a book on the Arctic-loving the polar bears & ice).
ReplyDeletehazel, the ice and this winter are dancing in freeze-thaw waltzes... polar bears...just wow.
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