Take It To The Streets - Day 17

Snowmobiles Riding Up the River 

You may need to look closely 

- to see the two snowmobiles in this photograph  

Snowmobiles are a common form of transportation, around here. Although there is a system of groomed and marked trails for them to use, snowmobilers also delight in travelling in fresh snow and through wide open country.

     

Take It To The Streets - Day 5

Ice Road  

Evergreen Posts Are Evenly Spaced

- and mark the boundaries of the ice road across the river     

It is a cold overcast day with drifting snow and a wind chill of -27 degrees Celcius. Nobody is out who doesn't have to be. 

This is the ice road to the community on the other side of the river. The trail  is intended for snowmobile traffic and it is marked with trees frozen into holes in the ice to show the location of the track.

The sign reads: "Caution: Mud Lake Winter Road. Travel At Your Own Risk. Always Use Caution When Crossing Bodies Of Water." 

Birches and their Neighbors - Day 7

Birches on the Riverbank

Riverbank Birches at Sunset  

- with a thin sliver of moon

Sunsets on the river are worth seeing. Depending on the weather, the sunset can range from brilliant reds, pinks and oranges in the clouds, to a lone pale disc dropping into an overcast void. Depending on the season, the river can be a reflecting mirror, or a flat white field of snow and ice, with fringes of birch and alder on the riverbank. And depending on its cycle, the moon shows as a pretty-shaped decoration hanging over the scene. It's transient, though, a sunset is. So it's really worth taking a few minutes to look at it.

Art Every Day Month - Nov 30 -

Broken Ice

Broken Ice - early season ice melt  

Source photo

Unseasonably mild temperatures and strong winds have combined to weaken and loosen the just-formed river ice upstream in higher terrain. Masses of slushy frozen water and brittle sheets of thin ice have broken away from the shore and are being carried downstream, pulling more melting ice along with them as they float past.