February 18, 2007
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Fairlyland Does Exist
Ignore my enthusiasm if you live these scenes matter of factly.
Regarding Ice Storms, we’ve had them but the ice melted away as the day wore on. Today, four plus days after our most recent ice storm hit (February 13, 2007), the ice persists. It’s a new and beautiful experience for me. Today, we add on top of the ice, several more inches of new snow. It’s like diamond lace, everywhere. Every blade of grass, every branch of every tree is covered with a layer of ice. A few photos for nonbelievers of magical places. I have uploaded more into my album if you want to see them. AN EDIT, I have renamed my IceStorm album TO “Winter Photography” for my convenience. I apologize for confusions.
Sign me as a witness to the existence of Fairyland. I have seen it. See more of my ice storm photos in my “Winter Photography” album.
Becca
Comments (17)
Gorgeous photographs.
Recent blogs include links to past haiku — see the various Blasts From the Past. Naturally, they made me think of you.
Hope you’re doing well.
Oh — just ’cause I feel like pointing you there — brendaclews has a lovely blog up, dealing with snow and ice and other things.
Lovely photos
I have never seen ice like that as we don’t get such extreme weather conditions here. I know that ice can bring down power lines so am surprised that the lines are not underground as most of them are here. It’s quite spring-like here today – a foretaste to things to come ! 
Marie
Re: underground power lines, we have many really bad power outage here in the US when the weather is extreme. I have heard talk of underground lines for most of my life and seen nothing done about it in our locality. All talk and very little action when it comes to improving what companies keep saying they will improve. Maybe putting men at risk of their lives to fix power outage, paying paychecks to do the work is the order of the day. I have no real idea why progress hasn’t been made.
Dear Becca,
I’m only beginning to immerse myself in the “art of blogging” after a few self imposed hiatuses. I saw a comment from you on another blog just now, so figured I’d drop by and see what you’ve been up to. Beautiful photos. We don’t have snow here in the L.A. area, so I love seeing snow photos. In fact, I searched for “snowstorm” videos on Xanga the other day, and I feautred a blogger named Chris’ video on my blog, which showed some neat images mixed to a nice soothing musical track. I found a “Winter Photography” album in your Xanga photoblog, and commented on a couple of the images. I don’t know where your “Ice Storm” album is located. (You neglected to add a link)
Since I live in SoCal, I won’t “ignore” your enthusiasm. You go, girl. Great photos. (Don’t be such a stranger)
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
beautiful – though I thank God we don’t have that here. We had a horrendous ice storm several years back, thousands without electricity for weeks, much loss of tree life, roads impassable and many of us virtually housebound. Stunning beauty, however, in all that – a world encased in delicate crystal, the sounds like windchimes … your photos bring back that time. Glorious, awesome, magnificence of nature.
and the smallness of one human being in the face of all that !
Striking shots, really. Ice storms are very rare here, but the hoarfrost that forms on trees, fences, etc., after an ice fog, reflects sunlight in much the same way.
I know, it is unbelievably gorgeous! And today as we were coming home, there was a red sunset, which seemed to be tinting the ice in the trees. Looked like they were covered in red fairylights! I have never seen this type of winter beauty last so long, either, and I think that unless you saw it yourself it would be hard to believe. Good thing we can take photos!
Here in Britain we seldom get such a cold winter anymore. The last one I remember was 1962 -1963, and the one before that was 1946-1947 (8 years old then). There again I did live in the South. I now live in the West Midlands bordering on North West and severe Winters seem to have become a discontinued line. At the moment we are experiencing unusually high day time February temperatures reaching the mid 50′s Fahrenheit.
That aside Becca, thanks for posting such beautiful shots of a bygone age(for us.)Really lovely photos!
Ice is nice, especially in lovely photos.
I run out of supurlatives when it comes to your photography! These are absolutely amazingly beautiful! I wish I could see some of this with my own eyes! Your composition is wonderful, the subject is wonderful, oh, heck………great work! Bunny
Thank you so much for your kind words about my photos. It means a lot, coming from you! It really was the prettiest thing I have ever seen, and it lasted a wonderfully long time. I saw a lot of scenes I wish I could have photographed. Where the trees were massed together, as you have captured, made a breathtaking view, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to get that scene with my camera. Wasn’t the sun glittering on that ice unbelievable? Because it was on every single branch, it was just spectacular!
Nature the fitter,
Of clothes so glorious,
That icily glitter,
I would like to see morious,
If behind the window I could sitter.
Glorious shoots. Don’t you wish we could find more shots without all those wires that bring us the power to use these wonderful machines. RYC: Ah, yes that would have been nice. Terry going to another place was my loss. Cheers.
So lovely and foreign to me.
Snow and Ice change completely the landscape in the woods or along the roads . We don’ t have words to express this magnifiscence . We can only say awwww !
Your pictures Becca are wonderful and give a good idea of those crystalline trees .
Thanks for your kind comment .
Michel
Love
Just had to stop and take a look at the Winter Shots again. Becca, you have certainly captured the magic in the winter wonderland. It seem to grow on you the more you look at it. This time I took a trip into your Winter photography Album. Excellent Stuff!
BRRRRR!