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.
The Kitchen's Garden 
57 responses to “Snow on Rain on Ice”
We are trying to emerge from the bitter. I am doing my best to encourage it by wearing a vintage sleeveless shift dress to work. So far, it isn’t helping, but it’s early. The last photo of the sun fireworking straight down into sunset with the tree should be reserved for next year’s calendar!
You are QUITE Mad! I like that about you! Hope you have a lovely vintage cardi. c
Not nearly as cold here (26*), but cold for us. I find that if I bundle up and keep working, I can stay warm. I took a ‘selfie’ of myself with one of my Sicilian Buttercup hens on my shoulder–she’s quite the helper, thinks she’s a pet bird. I find I am quite a sight, all bundled up with nose bright red and running. Donkeys and chickens do not care what look like. It makes me terribly happy.
Wonderful photos. Stay warm x
Yes, last nights moon was so full, so white…so intense I felt like someone was staring in our kitchen window watching us eat.
While we aren’t nearly as cold here, it’s only 38 this late in the day and by Wednesday we are to be around 11 degrees F…very cold for this far south. Do stay warm and be very careful on all of that ice!
Beautiful pictures and words – I felt as if I were there…but I’m glad I wasn’t – that is cold!!
That light ascending straight upwards is amazing! I’ve never seen anything like that before. Stay warm! 🙂
One doesn’t become a good writer without reading the good and great writers. It starts when one is very very young. If you are fortunate your Mother might read Dicken’s Old Curiosity Shop or David Copperfield to you every night. Then you grow up and begin devouring good books. When I read the “writings of Celi” they inspire me to look at words in a different way. To read the words out loud. They roll off my tongue – prose that sounds like poetry.
Wow, that picture of the sun coming through the clouds and shooting straight up through the sky is amazing! Definitely calendar worthy for next year! We just finished our very cold snap of about a week. Yesterday we got 7 inches of beautiful snow and today it is pouring rain and foggy. Just gross.
yeah, that whole snow and rain thing is just a muddle.. c
I love your sky shots, but oh so cold. I wonder that anything can survive in the wild. Stay warm.
Oh my what superb pics Celi! Thank you 🙂
Your description of the changing light was so vivid that I think even a person who is totally blind would be able to see what you described in their mind. You have a rare talent when it comes to describing what you see. I hope the little piggies are able to take such drastic temp. changes better than when they got sick a few months ago when the temps. plummeted. Having grown up in Upstate NY I do miss those sunny, but bitterly cold days. Here is Oregon the stretches of dreary rainy days wear on your mind & cause you to just want to hibernate after a few weeks without the sun. Days where the sun reappears maake me feel immediately energized & productive. Darkness is great for sleeping, but I will take a sunny day anytime – no matter how cold it is. You a so lucky that you will soon be catching a flight into summer weather. It always amazes me that one can board a plane in one weather extreme & arrive at your destination to find it’s polar opposite. Hope you & all the animals stay warm & healthy. I do wish Shelia had stayed in her warmer quarters now that winter has arrived. Hopefully, not butt Poppy will sleep with Shelia & help keep both of them warm. I would hate for this cold weather to make Shelia’s leg joints become lame again. When is the Christmas cow arriving? Do 3 cows constitute a herd?
Christmas cow is due about the 21s. , I am thinking I will lock Sheila back into her warmer quarters while I am away, with no-one to tuck her in at night.. Tima and Tane are doing much better with the cold now, it is all about getting used to the cold, i think.Though it is still only moderately cold – not too bad at all.. c
Stay warm! We are supposed to get snow tomorrow. These photos are beautiful!
We are due a dose of winter this week, too. I love the light show you captured! How quickly it changes.
Winter is incredible for photography – I think sometimes the best season with its low lights and soft tones that both mute and saturate all the colours. Of course, it is also very cold! Lovely, lovely post.