Project 365 ~ Survivor (Day 9)

This lone dandelion was spotted in our backyard today. A survivor of the frozen cold that surrounds it. Frosty jaws snapped shut as it wonders what happened to the warm sunshine and grass that graced its view just days earlier.

Mother nature can't seem to decide whether she wants rain, snow or arctic cold *grin*. We have gone full circle from rain and flooding to now frozen snow. Half of our yard is behind trees and hedge so it never sees the sunshine and becomes a veritable winterland for much of the time full of icicles and snow.

Giant puddles in the fields left from the flooding have turned into miniature skating rinks and the children are waiting impatiently for the pond to freeze thick enough to skate on. Unfortunately this freeze is only supposed to last a few more days and the cycle of rain, snow & frozen conditions will run its course again and any ice that covered the pond will thin or disappear again.

Sometimes I long for those ultra cold conditions of the prairies where the snow is consistent as is the dry cold, but I love living on the wet west coast and spring will appear much quicker than I can imagine it :)

Hugs,
Rosina

PS. You can see more of my Project 365 photos HERE :)

Project 365 ~ Day 1

I've decided that I'm going to do Project 365 all over again :)

Back in 2007 I took a single photo every day, posting it on my old blog for an entire year and it was a lot of fun. I haven't quite decided if I'm going post a photo every day though or a weekly post sharing a weeks worth of photos in one shot this time around but here is my first one for 2011!

These amazing little shards of ice coming out of the ground are all over today. It is so cold here right now that the ground is eroding and pushing up in places leaving deep crevices around rocks and these beautiful little patches of ice shards. They're thin like little razor sharp needles yet so delicate that the littlest bit of pressure causes them to snap.

If you are participating Project 365 let me know! I would love to see your photos. I've also created a new page link above just under my blog header titled 'project 365' where you can click at anytime to catch up on new photos so that you don't have to search through my blog to find them. I still can't believe that it's 2011! It seems like it was just the other day when there was all that talk about Y2K and now it's already 11 years later. Time must really fly when you are having fun *grin*.

Hugs,
Rosina