Ice palace?

[vaneramos]

Yesterday while returning across Victoria Road bridge, I noticed a movement in the distance upstream. The bridge is heavily travelled, but I waited for a break in the traffic and crossed to get a better look. I glimpsed a small brown shape crawl onto the edge of an ice shelf. Just having visited the lodge, I first thought beaver, but this was smaller and more agile, most likely a muskrat. By the time I reached the guardrail it has disappeared underwater.

Standing there I heard the sound of falling water, and looked down to see it pouring from a drain over the edge of the limestone cliff, forming a fantastic ice palace below. I wouldn't have heard or seen it on the far side of the bridge had it not been for the muskrat. It was so beautiful I had to retrace my steps and half-clamber, half-slide down a break in the cliff to approach the waterfall from below and take pictures.

For pegkerr.

Comments

[mattycub.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Canada has used Celsius, too, ever since the 1970s (I think), when North America decided to switch to what the rest of the world was doing. Canada spent zillions of tax dollars converting and then the US changed its mind.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

oh, we didn't change our mind. we simply went into
committee mode(courtesy of our various state and
local governments)and have been studying methods of
changing ever since. you'd be disgusted to learn how
much money has been spent on this. the fact is, that
nothing need be done but change all the signs, tools,
etc. no conversion charts are necessary, and if they
were, that can easily be done by means of the simplest
computers. sounds stupid? of course it does, it is!~paul

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Kewel ... it reminds me of the icicles that hand off the escarpment near where I grew up, sometimes "ice falls" 8 or 10 stories high.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

They must be fantastic. This rock face is a miniature version of the escarpment in Hamilton: same rock, same ancient, gnarled cedars growing out of the face. Since I'll have car, I'm thinking of taking the girls hiking around Rattlesnake Point next week.

See you this evening. *hugs*

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I can hardly believe they have been dithering all this time. We just did it. I was in grade school. We had to start learning metric a couple years before the official conversion. Then we just did it. I seem to remember traffic speeds were posted in both systems for several years, and the media continued to give temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit for longer than that. But any Canadian younger than 30 would not remember when the country went metric.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

i was just a few years older than this picture when
we began studying metric in school. our cars, for
god's sake, have had kilo/mile odometers for 15 years.
believe it or not, the Arizona Department Of Transportation
(where i put in 32 long hard years)has been studying how
to change for more than 20 years! incidentally, whose idea
was it to say Celsius, and isn't that diametrically opposed
to his idea of a logical system?~paul

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the card! And Merry Christmas. :-)

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

These are enchanting, sweetie. I love the beaver lodge ones, as well.

Hope you have a wonderful holiday.

Love, Shimmer

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

you're most welcome, Van. i hope you all
have a wonderful holiday and a fulfilling new
year!~paul

[twillhead.livejournal.com]

Really gorgeous images. Reminds me of my apartment last night. The furnace is on the fritz and when I awoke from the cold at approximately 2 a.m., I could see my breath. Brrrr!

Would you happen to know...

[bigmacbear]

the Arizona Department Of Transportation (where i put in 32 long hard years)

Interestingly enough, I've subscribed to the Usenet group misc.transport.road for quite a few years now (since shortly after its inception) and have been very impressed by a poster on the group from ADOT by the name of Richard Moeur. Perhaps you may know him as a colleague from back then? Or perhaps you've been following the newsgroup as well?

Re: Would you happen to know...

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

not really. his names sounds vaguely familiar,
but then after 32 years, a lot of names would be.~paul

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

But did you like the Alien Beaver Baby?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Arg, my bedroom is almost that bad. I don't have much control over the heat in my apartment. The office, living room and kitchen are cozy, but the rooms on the west side—bathroom and bedroom—are a spiritual test.