Feb 21/10: Icicles

Feb 21/10: Icicles, originally uploaded by susanvg.

Water droplets slide down the icy surface adding to the girth of the icicles. Some escape dripping onto whatever is below. Each night the icicles get longer. In daytime, the sun warms the air. Freeze and thaw; freeze and thaw. Winter constantly changes the scene, dropping snow, sculpting ice and melting.

With longer days the sun's warmth is starting to be felt. What felt cold in the fall as the seasons changed, now feels warm as we slowly move towards spring. The seasons have their rhythm played each year with variations.

Day 360: Icicles

Day 360: Icicles, originally uploaded by susanvg.

Freeze and thaw - so typical of Montreal winters, causing havoc on the roads as water enters the cracks and pries them open as it freezes. My icicles come and go as the water drips and freezes. Then all comes crashing down when the thaws take hold.

As a child we delighted in breaking off icicles and sucking on them. Now, in our sanitized society we think only of the possibilities for transmission of dirt and disease. Sometimes I think we overfill ourselves with fears of strangers, of answering doors, or dirt, of viruses. I will try to recapture the carefree feeling of childhood when possibilities were to be explored not avoided.