Walking along Lake Monona, I’m thinking that there is a reason why people from Iceland feel comfortable here.
I swear, I have not tampered with color in these two shots: the camera was set on normal mode. The sun is coming through, but just barely, in small bands of faint yellow against a gray everything else.
In some spots, water is seeping to the surface. Maybe from a current or stream, maybe from a pipe. Somehow this is reassuring. In another couple of months we’ll see water on the entire lake again.
Wont we?
i know how that lake feels.
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Those are incredible colors. I mean, great -- I do believe they're real.
ReplyDeleteBleak is the new beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe palette of the 2nd photo makes it look like it's black-and-white. It really is extraordinary that no, it's "in color."
I like being able to visit winter this way.
kat: my own feeling is that if the bleakness does not lift soon then I will start refusing to get out of bed.
ReplyDeleteoscar: they are indeed. you, of course, are sharing these slaty gray days here. It's prettier in photos than in reality.
Joan: Bleak is the new beautiful for people who live in Arizona.
me: part of me is liking the absence of the WI deep freeze. It's horrible when you start liking something that is ultimately going to destroy civilization as we know it.
Those two pictures are great. They look . . . cold. Here in Kansas City we have been having near-record highs. Yesterday I was sorely tempted to lay on my back on the front lawn and loll in the oblique (but warm) sunlight.
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