Winter is letting go very quickly. Signs of Spring are everywhere. I put away all my ski stuff and got out a hummingbird feeder. Even the light is different. Where it is no longer reflecting off of snow it has a warmer quality. The ice on Patterson Lake has retreated from the shore leaving behind leaves and other remnants of last year.
Bubbles frozen in ice at the edge
Melted snow reveals a crayfish shell
Tree pollen swirls with meltwater and last year’s leaves
This one remains firmly in the ice. But not for long.
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I respect and admire your attention to these things most people would not give a second thought, and your eye for the delicate patterns and ephemeral relationships between elements of these exquisite miniature examples of nature’s art.
I hope you won’t mind my sharing a piece about some of my happy encounters with ice:
http://thebalsamean.com/2013/02/27/ice/
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[…] Letting Go (blog post at myeverydayphotos.wordpress.com) is the work of a great eye for the magical display of spring nudging its way past winter at the extreme edge of the edge of a lake. These are not merely “everyday photos” (as indicated in the blog’s title). They are the eye of someone deeply attentive to nature every day. […]