“Pic of the Week”, May 17, 2019: Enjoying the last Remnant of Winter

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These photos were taken almost a year ago, after  an unusually long and cold winter, with snow lasting well into May, 2018. 

I visit my elderly father, who lives in Winnipeg, as often as possible.  He is no longer able to drive but he still likes to go on road-trips.  Just a little over 2 months ago we headed north of Winnipeg to the beach community of Victoria Beach, situated on the shore of massive Lake Winnipeg, where we’d had a cabin in the 1980s and 1990s.  My dad and I both have many special memories of this community during those years.

A focal point of the community is its pier, built and maintained by the Government of Canada as a place …

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

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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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