“Pic of the Week”. February 14, 2014. Ice in the Vertical Plane — Seven Sisters Dam, Manitoba, & Cascade Mountain, Alberta

2014 007 Feb  14a Whiteshell park Seven Sisters Dam

I’ve always found water freezing vertically, rather than in it’s usual horizontal plane, to be oddly appealing.   Obviously it has to freeze slowly, a trickle of water turning solid as gravity pushes it towards the earth.  Individually these drops don’t mount to much but when there are millions of them you create a natural work of art.

Today’s highlighted photos are of two destinations I visited this past year which demonstrated “ice in the vertical”.  The photo above was taken late winter in eastern Manitoba’s Whiteshell Provincial Park, a place I fondly remember from my childhood.  My family would often go camping, fishing, and gathering wild blueberries and mushrooms here during the summer.  The Seven Sisters …

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