flowers through ice

the other day i got home after a really good bike ride - wind behind me, big sky, sunshine, and my legs weren't hurting too much. i decided to take a look around my back yard and take some pics of the last bits of snow and ice. i took a couple of pics of the frozen over swimming pool, more to gloat over in the hot hot summertime than anything. i thought that as i was out i would take a look in the little collector bucket and make sure that nothing was doing the backstroke in it.

inside the bucket was a semi circular chunk of absolutely clear ice. the ice was roughly twenty centimetres across and over the course of the hour in which i held it, it changed shape and even its internal architecture - veined with air bubbles and radiating striations. i spent one glorious creative hour of my life taking one hundred and ninety pictures of that piece of ice in various locations in and out of my home. from that i culled just over fourty images which i will share here in little groups over time.

today's set is of flowers around my home as seen through the block of ice.

roses, carnations and ferns.

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