Icicle Frost Spray After days of hard frost, the grasses and mosses along the banks of the cascade were coated in layers of frozen spray. A long time exposure contrasted the flow against the static icicles. “Emotion, because it brings feeling and connects you to feeling, allows you to recognise different states of conciousness. The […]
Ice crystals up close These crystals were growing along the bank of a tiny frozen stream, taken lying down in the snow to be on eye-level with the surface. “All people who have developed the heart chakra and are in the habit of loving all beings, loving animals, loving nature, loving to give out love, […]
Frost needles on birch twig As I write this we have an inch of fluffy snow, on top of a layer of ice. There was one morning during the week when we had sunshine and a crisp blue sky, with these needles of ice sprouting from every blade of grass and twig. After an hour […]
Snow and sun Taken shortly before the low sun dipped behind the hill of Craigellachie, I loved the golden sparkle as the sunlight came through the snow and birch branches. The air was so cold and dry that as snow fell from branches it created a cloud of shining diamonds. “A human being is a […]
Icicles with sunset glow Icicles outside my front door, as the deep freeze continues… “In the pursuit of knowledge every day something more is added. In the pursuit of Tao every day something is let go of” – Lao Tzu
“Snow feathers” – hoar frost crystals Welcome to what seems to have become the weekly snow report! This was taken on a wee local ski expedition last week. Temperatures were below freezing all week with lows of minus 16C, allowing these amazing frost crystals to build up. With no wind, and blue skies, conditions were […]
Freezing Spires – Loch Morlich, Glenmore. Taken a few days ago just before New Year, on a day of sparkling frost crystals and fantastic air clarity with a daytime high temperature of -9C. The loch was completely frozen over (and perfectly skiable…) except for the outflow, pictured here. The surface was steaming like a hot […]
Frosted cotoneaster. After several sub-zero days the frost is building up. The blackbirds have taken up residence in this cotoneaster, chuckling over the plentiful berry supply. “Suffering, even great physical pain and emotional loss, dissolves when you stop looking at it and for it. It disappears when you stop agreeing with it or fighting it. […]
Silver Birch, Winter Frost Some more from the beautiful weather over Christmas and New Year. In the freezing mist this frost-coated birch glowed as the sun caught it against the blue shadow of the hill behind. “If you would have a better world, create it for yourselves now at this very instant in your mind: […]
Deep Freeze Haze, Loch Vaa, Strathspey How beautiful its been for us this week – minus 8 or so, sunshine, mist, and no wind. These gnarly old trees, in a deep frost-hollow, were sparkling with natural fairy lights as the sun refracted through millions of ice-drops. Light and dark, the raw ingredients of photography – […]
Michaelmas Daisy Frost-flowers, in the garden. “Earth, Ether, Fire and Water continually change their form to become what they speak of. Sometimes they look like an elemental that is associated with each element… Sometimes they look like a standing wave or a crystal or a whirlwind.” — Tanis Halliwell.
Frosted Sycamore Leaf. “Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes, If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and co-ordinated as bird wings.” — Rumi.
