enchanted forest
I've been a little bit wimpy these days albeit for sound reasons. It's been too darn cold to take pictures. I am cooped up in the house. Meanwhile there has been a slow and beautiful transformation taking place all around me. Cold fog rises almost constantly from the frozen tundra like Narnian mist. Every window begs me to leave my fortress in the snow. The arctic temperatures penetrate my hands too quickly though, painfully so. I have had to be content with windows which isn't a bad thing but ....
Enter beautiful Laura.
For the past few days she's been driving past an enchanted forest near her home and thought how I might like to be there. So she bundled me up, made a hot thermos of tea, gave me extra batteries for a potentially grumpy camera, beautiful warm gloves, drove me to the forest and shoved me out the passenger door whilst she and her little boy waited. When the cold became too much for my hands I made a mad boot-thumping run back to the warm car for tea and, yes, a little sympathy. Two minutes was all it would take and I'd be off again.
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11 Comments:
Wow, those are such pretty pictures! And how nice of Laura, she is so sweet and thoughtful!
beautiful pictures. You really should do a book or something.
You have such an eye for beauty. Thank you for sharing these gorgeous pictures!
Hello my sweetness, it's been wonderful to read through these past few posts and get more of a glimpse of what Yellowknife is like. Wow, I cannot imagine what -50 C feels like. I read these last night and then had a dream about my eyeballs freezing up and having to defrost them with warm thumbs (someone else's). -27 C was cold enough, but -50C is almost twice as cold and I just cannot get my head around how cold that must be. Do you think if you stood still for long enough you would just freeze right there and then? Do you have to make a conscious effort to keep moving? I have a million questions about how it feels. Please can you post something about that? Like what would happen if you took a glove off in that cold? Would your hand fall off after a few minutes?
Loved all your photos and Sonya is right, you do have an eye for beauty.
Sorry I've been away - I aim to be back from now on.
x
Laura's a smart lady :) What a magical place.
'Spectacular!' was the first word that came to my mind.
Beautiful, Colleen.
I love friends like that. So glad that you have at least one.
I also love hoar frost. So, so great.
I am loving all your pictures!! Beautiful!
I especially love the way the sky looks. Gorgeous photos. Do you have a special lens/camera?
Thank you, friends! :)
Nan, I don't have a special camera. Just regular. (Except that for some reason it can tolerate -40° weather for short periods of time and for that I am very grateful.) That is the way the sky was. Everything is very white and pale. It's hard to believe it's really like that sometimes even when I'm looking right at it! And MANY of my photos do not turn out. More don't than do. They look nice but it's almost impossible to get it to expose properly. Any auto-fixes want to darken my photo and exosing it more to whiten the snow tends to bleach out details. I'm not sure what camera would capture it exactly or what I would have to do. My cammie is a Canon something or other, point and shoot, and it's four years old.
any questions?
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