The light did a funny thing yesterday afternoon. It was snowing on top of the rain that was on top of the ice. The temperature was going down so fast that everything was freezing where it fell. Freezing AS it fell. I went out without my gloves and found myself jogging to the house to retrieve them ten minutes later. 
The snow fell in a way that made me wonder whether it was falling or just blowing about.
Freezing fast.
Then the gloom swooned with a slow sweep of a hidden lighting board, the little light man sliding the sun dial up, slowly tuning its brightness level from behind the clouds. It was the strangest thing.
After a while this golden half light, highlighting the falling snow, began to disperse, the clouds breaking their hold and as the snow faded the light began channeling upwards. Like a spotlight. A strong spotlight. The light was ascending in the West. Reluctant to loose its hold to the sky.
Then later the moon came creeping up into the clouds in the East and it’s light reflected back upwards like a spotlight as well. Those cold crystals are forming again.
We have a few days of “Bitter” cold ahead.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
p.s. it is ZERO degrees (-17C), and windy. Winter is here methinks.
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57 responses to “Snow on Rain on Ice”
Even bitter cold can be beautiful.
It is true Bev, there is something beautiful in almost everything.. c
Brrr. Wrap up warm, darling. xx
I was so wrapped up this morning I was having trouble walking but I was WARM!! morning misky.. c
Good morning, darling. x
Lovely description of the celestial light show! I do love it when the sky and sun do weird and wonderful things: the ‘Finger of God’ special effect of a shaft of sun breaking through thick cloud. “Oi”, says God “You down there, pay attention, I’m doing something fancy with the Heavenly Pink Spotlight”. And just for a minute or two, we do pay attention, before humdrum life intervenes again.
You are right there kate, when something magic happens in the sky we DO look up and say Wow.. have a lovely day!.. c
stay warm Miss C and walk with great care….. in this case ….’don’t break a leg’ …. got any idea why they say this in the acting world, seems a strange thing to say ‘break a leg’?
Counters the bad luck.. I had my Swedish Boots on this morning.. it is ALL ice out there, they take a bit of getting on and off but are SO worth it,. c
The light looks amazing, but very cold 🙂
we are getting cold now, it will slowly slide down to Minus 14 before this weather pattern changes, but so far it is looking ok for the 14th of Jan. This is the date I am watching.. we don’t want weather interfering with the travel plans!.. c
No, definitely not!
Winter is here too, gad freezing rain all day yesterday. I can hear a cold wind blowing outside this morning.
Stay warm and tread carefully.
It is the wind that makes it worse,calm and cold is so much more manageable.. c
I agree! The wind is the worst, can freeze skin in seconds while cold without wind can take forever in minutes!
Linda
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It looks freezing…but beautiful too.
Tonight they say there might be more snow, but I am not sure how, it seems too cold to snow.. but we will see.. have a lovely Brizzy day!.. c
Oh my gosh, stay warm! That does look freezy out there…but ever so beautiful. I’d be standing outside taking the photos of that sunset too. 😀 Good thing the girls (and boy) have such a warm winter coat on them to be standing around like that. Here it’s leaden skies and West Coast rain storms. I think the sun might peek out of a sucker hole for about ten minutes somewhere over Burnaby Mountain in the next two months and that will be that. Oh, and the back garden birds will learn to swim in the huge puddles on the grass. Either that, or we’ll be colonised by a gaggle of ducks.
So you seldom see the sun? That would wear on one I think. We have sun this morning and even in the cold you see the animals crowding into thesheltered sun patches.. c
Stunning photos! (Albeit with a bit of bleakness to them!)
Christine
Bleak is a very evocative word. It is exactly what it means.. we get a lot of bleak out here with all the fields empty and exposed. . c
Wow! In Switzerland it feels like spring is coming. We had a couple of snowy days but today it was so sunny and warm that I felt weird in my winter jacket
That must be a nice change.. here I feel that winter is only just really arrived. I imagine your cold will come back though? c
I hope not, I’m a bad driver on snowy streets 🙂
Stay warm miss c…it’s 10 degrees here right now! brrrrrrr … t
Morning Miss T! c
Your marvellous description and photos took me straight there, but without boots, gloves, scarf and hat, I came straight back! I hope it doesn’t last too long, for the sake of John and the flerd. You, of course, will be escaping soon.
Your hattie is back to work over here though.. !.. c
I’ll take snow any day over freezing rain. But this bitter cold I do not like.
Oh yes! Freezing rain is the killer.. very hard on the balance and the landscape.. morning audrey.. c
The coldest air does give us the strangest light. I am so glad you were able to capture it. Now don’t leave the house again without gloves! You don’t want handcicles when you leave for the sun!
The temperatures changed very fast yesterday, I have noticed that out here on the prairie.. it can drop massively in an hour.. c
I am shivering at the description of the cold. Take care, steady and slow on that tricky surface underfoot. You don’t want to be plastered for the wedding!
Rather be plastered AT the wedding!! ha ha .. and now I am worrying about you slipping outside your back door where no-one can see. Hope you are being careful too.. c
I’m with you on that one, Celi! 😆
My back door is well and truly locked for the duration. Other more urgent problems have raised their head, so I do not need to add a fall to the list!