Oops!! – this wee burn is beginning to freeze over! Whilst out for a walk on the Lomond Hills, a couple of weekends ago, it got so cold that the wee stream (‘burn’ in Scottish) began to freeze over! (It was partially frozen from the night before.)
Oops!! – this wee burn is beginning to freeze over! Whilst out for a walk on the Lomond Hills, a couple of weekends ago, it got so cold that the wee stream (‘burn’ in Scottish) began to freeze over! (It was partially frozen from the night before.)
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Can’t ice be beautiful? This reminds me that I have some similar shots waiting to be posted. Just have to find the right time.
janet
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I’m pleased to have reminded you about a post Janet! 🙂 And yes, ice can be very beautiful, some of the photos I’ve seen that other people have posted on wordpress have been far better than these!!! 🙂
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Too cold for me, but it makes great photos 🙂
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Thanks Gilly 🙂 It was chilly when I set off, but once I’d been walking for an hour it was really nice 🙂
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Reminds me of when I lived in England. I remember how our rotund maths teacher at Grammar School slipped up on the ice in the playground and it took four boys to get him upright again. 😀
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Lol!!! Great story Sylvia! 🙂
Whereabouts in England were you brought up?
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Mansfield Notts
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So quite a change now!!! 🙂
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Yes, we’ve had quite a few changes over the years. 😃
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It’s good to experience a few different countries Sylvia, but hopefully now you’ve pretty much settled down 🙂
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Maybe we have, but never say never. 😃
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Lol!! 🙂
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Ice can be magnificent to work with! I once did a blog post on a disc of ice I turned out of a galvanized bucket one morning on my way to doing chores. If you research about how ice forms, it’s really quite fascinating! Lovely photos, Andy!
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Thank you Lori 🙂 Ice is an amazing substance Lori, I quite agree, especially the fact that water is less dense at 0 degrees C, than it is at 4 degrees C, hence it floats on the top of ponds and lakes etc 🙂
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Lovely shots Andy. They reminded me of a time when my son was about 7 and we took him to Central Otago one winter. He and my husband spent a very happy morning breaking headstone-sized slabs of ice off a frozen lake and building sculptures with them. It was a beautiful clear day and they had such a good time.
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That sounds like fantastic fun, I’m most envious of your husband and son! Lol! 🙂
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I have to admit I had visions of them falling in and having to be rescued. I’m such a mum sometimes.
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That’s what Mum’s do Su!! 🙂 Us guys and kids enjoy ourselves, and save all the worrying to you! 🙂
To be honest though, the older I get, the more I worry about the kids doing things like that! Lol! 🙂
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That’s true! I know what you mean though. My 17 year old has recently bought a car … and I thought my sleepless nights were over when he (finally) started sleeping through.
I’m trying not to turn into my Mum; but those 3am sessions when I imagine everything that could go wrong …. Oh well.
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Unfortunately Su, you never cease being a Mum, even when your kids reach 40!!! Lol! 🙂
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That’s what my mum says … and we’re a wee bit older than that!
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LOL!!!!! 🙂
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I love ice patterns. Lovely pics. My favourite is the fifth one.
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Thank you Helen 🙂 I should really have taken some video to go with these images, it was fascinating watching the bubbles in the water flowing under the ice, you can’t really see them all that clearly in the fifth and sixth photos 😦
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These are lovely. I tend to think of ice in blocks or slabs. The ice on the surface of this ‘wee burn’ is anything but. So intricate in places. Well captured. 🙂
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Thank you Scottishmomus 🙂 There were some slabs of ice on the puddles, but I think because the wee burn is flowing, the more intricate patterns of ice were able to develop 🙂
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Ice be gone!
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Lol!! Very good Vonita 🙂
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Love the endless variety of patterns that ice makes! Maybe there will be some more tomorrow – freezing here already. Lovely photos, Andy!
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Thanks Jo 🙂 Ice is definitely a good subject to photo, as you say, endless variations and it tends not to move around too much! LOL! 🙂
It’s beginning to freeze up here as well, I think top temp tomorrow is meant to be 1 degree 🙂 Hopefully I’ll find the time to get out with the camera!
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This is so pretty Fife! So many different shots and all are lovely! I like the ordinary but it ends up actually being extraordinary!
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Thanks Lynz 🙂 Glad you like them, you live in a far better place than we do for ice and snow 🙂
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oh yes lots of ice and snow. If we get some more ice I will take a photo for you Fife!
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I’ll look forward to that 🙂
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haha i will try to make you proud! haha
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I’m sure you will Lynz 🙂
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Great ice shots! Ice truly is amazing! It’s a lucky thing for us that water has such unusual characteristics! 🙂
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Thanks Tom 🙂 It certainly is good for us that water is different to many other substances in its physical characteristics!!
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That’s 4 sure! 🙂
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So beautiful and all so different! Looks like Jack Frost worked his magic, freezing the ripples and capturing them at just the perfect moment in the “Burn begins to freeze” pic and sparking the crystals in the “Frozen wee burn on Lomonds Hills.” Thanks for sharing your part of the world!
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Thank you Jean 🙂 I really appreciate your kind comments!
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Love the first photo Andy, I can see lots of different shapes, including Santa Claus 🙂
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Thanks Amanda 🙂 I hadn’t noticed the shapes in the first photo, that’s brilliant – I think I can see Scooby Doo!!!! (possibly he’s Santa to you! Lol!)
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Sorry Lynne, I just called you Amanda, my apologies!
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Yes I can see him to LOL 🙂
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🙂
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Hibernate time! I might come back out in April 🙂
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LOL!!! I guess you prefer warmer climates Jo 🙂
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Some excellent work here, Andy. A joy to follow your work. Thanks for your visit to my little corner of the WordPress universe. Glad you liked the autumn pictures. Best, Tony
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Thanks Tony, you’re part of the wordpress universe looks quite impressive from the wee bit I’ve seen. I’m looking forward to seeing more of your photos!
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Grand! I’ve got an awful lot to post in the coming days including Croatia, Montenegro & Rome images, plus some from the UK. I’ve rekindled my love of landscape work and dropped street photography…
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I’ll look forward to that Tony!
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While wintery, coldery, icy things are not my favorite subjects, you did a nice job with them. I like weather, just not anything to do with cold of any sort. LOL
If you like, you’re welcome to come visit my challenge at:
https://fstopfantasy.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/weekly-photo-challenge-oops/
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Thanks Cris 🙂
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I think I found Scooby do and a sharp nosed Jack Frost 🙂 Super intricacy in nature’s patterns Andy , love the variety you’ve captured here . Looks like Scotland is set for some rather fresh temperatures 😉
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Thanks Poppy 🙂 If it hadn’t been for Lynne, I would have missed all these amazing characters in that photo!! LOL! 🙂
We certainly did get it fairly cold yesterday, it was really nice and fresh, but alas, it’s back to the rain again today! 😦
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Beautiful picture.I like it.
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Thank you Francois 🙂
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Awesome photos. I love them.
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Thank you Sartenada 🙂
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It must really be fascinating to watch the water freeze like that Andy. Something we don’t see here much. It’s way too warm, even in winter.
Stunning shots of the ‘wee burn’. I love the way you describe it. 😀
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Thanks Sophia 🙂 It is an amazing thing to watch water freeze, having said that, you couldn’t literally watch it, it took about 30 mins to see a difference in the quantity of ice – I had to walk around in that time to keep warm! Lol! 🙂
Glad you like the description of it, I try to use some of the Scottish dialect where possible, it sounds much nicer to me than just plain old English 🙂
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I bet it is. The only things that freeze here are the freezer and when it’s so hot here I feel I can just get into it and sit there until I am frozen. LOL!
That is quite a long time and you certainly did a great job and thank you for suffering to show us these great shots. 😀
I love it. It makes your posts so much more personal and then it feels as if I am there and you’re right, it definitely does. 😀
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LOL!!! I can’t imagine it getting so hot you could climb into the freezer, we are lucky in Scotland, and most of the UK, it never gets unbearably hot, even in the middle of summer, and the heat we do get, is generally a dry heat 🙂 If it gets over 20 degrees C up here, everyone (not me!!) complains that it is too hot! Lol!
Glad you like the dialect, just a shame I can’t speak Cornish as well. A wee bit of Scottish Cornish would make for some interesting sentences!! 🙂
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Well, imagine it because it definitely does. During the day I am in and out of the pool most of the time and yesterday was cloudy and we had some rain, which I totally love. But when it’s hot it can be unbearable at times, but I am not complaining. I do prefer Autumn and Winter though. 🙂
Maybe it’s a good thing. I doubt if I will understand it. LOL! But I can only imagine what a lovely language it must be. 😀
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I can imagine how nice the rain must feel when it gets that hot Sophia 🙂
And I think I would also much prefer the Autumn, Winter & Spring too.
As to the languages, I don’t think I would be able to understand it either! LOL!! If you have ever heard anyone talking in Welsh, Cornish is fairly similar. In fact, Breton, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish & Scottish Gaelic are all very similar languages, which makes sense because we all originated from the same Celtic tribes a few thousand years ago 🙂
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Oh, it’s heaven for sure Andy. I just love the rain. 😀
What I love about Spring is all the bugs and spiders that come out and luckily this year I didn’t have a struggle with sinus as usual. The menopause must have scared it away. hahaha!
LOL! I don’t think I would. My stepbrother had a Scottish girlfriend and when she got angry, her Scottish accent came through and we couldn’t understand a word. LOL!
Sounds like such a lovely language. 😀
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Spring is my favourite, it’s all the new fresh leaves coming out on the trees that is my favourite thing about it, but also seeing the new flowers and insects all makes it a very magical time of the year 🙂
Glad you haven’t had sinus problems this year, that must put a real dampner on Spring – at least the menopause has one advantage! 🙂
I know how you felt about your brother in laws girlfriend, I can’t understand my wife when she gets angry! Lol!! 🙂
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What amazing patterns in the ice. Some look just like leaf veins. Great photography! We’ve only had one really cold night here, and I did notice the puddles fwere rozen over. Perhaps – if I’d had a photographer’s eye, lik you – I might have seen some interesting patterns. 🙂
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Thanks Millie 🙂 We’ve had a fair number of cold days now, we’ve actually already had more snow than we got for the whole of last winter!! The patterns formed by the ice always fascinate me, and this time air bubbles were flowing under the ice which created some interesting shapes 🙂
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It’s lucky you caught them at the right time for photographing. Your photos were really superb. 🙂
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Thanks Millie 🙂
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You’re ahead of us with the ice–we had a morning dust of snow yesterday though. Great pictures–I used to enjoy walking on that type of ice and hearing the crackle–(still do 🙂 )
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It does make a wonderful sound, it’s a shame you can’t include sound with a photo! Actually I guess you can, it’s called video! Lol!! 🙂
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Your comment is the script for a conversation I have in my head occasionally…:))
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LOL!! 🙂
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The pictures are beautiful. What caught my eye was calling a stream/creek a ‘burn’. Here in the States that term is not used. However, my maiden name is Washburn. My family believes the name is Welsh and comes from long-ago relatives from living near a creek used for washing clothes. Thank you for giving pictures to a family name.
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Thank you Kathie 🙂 That’s really interesting about your family name. As far as I am aware, the Welsh for stream or river, is ‘cornant’ or ‘afon’ respectively. And the term ‘burn’ for a stream is just a Scottish word, so maybe your family name has a more Scottish derivation 🙂
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So ‘burn’ is Scottish! That’s very interesting. I’ll have to my family know that we’re most likely not Welsh but Scottish…never too old to learn something new.
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No offence to the Welsh, but it’s far better to be Scottish! LOL!!! Not that I’m either, I’m Cornish, but my wife is Scottish 🙂
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I really like these. Thank you.
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Thanks Joycelin 🙂 The ice in the puddles does create some very interesting shapes!
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I love it when the ice does that.
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It is a wonderful affect 🙂
But I am beginning to regret taking these photos, it’s not stopped raining since I took them, no sign of ice or frost! Lol!
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