Acadie

the castle

two towers 

green hillsides surrounding me

rolling down towards

far horizons

the spaces, the freedom, are a wall

ashlar impenetrable

doubtful descending spiral staircases 

how to escape when queen?

where is the king?

over yonder?

It's so far

it takes so long to reach that line

i loose myself half way

soft, no bottom 

to my longing

the castle 's a faint memory

stop the search

sit and look

the cold entering bones

look

specks of blood in snow

there; animal hair,

a feather,

the rock face in our mountain

from the deep dungeon of my loving

i climb towards the sun

do not ever think that castles bring us freedom

the more we own 

the more enclosed we are

your skin, my skin

it still sends currents

up our spines

bare stones do not burn

when will i be free?

i never read Longfellow's

Evangeline

never reached Acadie

Destiny's lady gaga joke

How do you wake up Lady Gaga?

                     

Answer: Poker Face 

the freezing up of a river

It would be nice to live right on a river for a while (not for long time, but that it is another story)
But to keep a daily journey on how it freezes over a period of one winter.
The Takhini river at this particular spot, was frozen  earlier, then opened up again and now with this cold the ice builds up rapidly,  the first picture taken an hour after the second one.
Maybe i go back tomorrow.
As the freezing-over here has more to do with building up of ice-floes, i wonder if it freezes over faster in this temperature, then when it is even colder and no ice-floes break off upstream, to build up here. Is their a turning point?

atmospheric halos

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/unusual.htm

This website gives some names for what was seen in the sky here yesterday.

The temperature out, was around -25 C

In the Takhini Valley ( in which i live) hang an ice fog, seemingly clear skies, but when looking along the horizon, a clearly visible fog, greyer then the the blue sky above, lined the horizon.

The Sundogs were visible all through the day.

I will try with the website above now to give names to the halos showing in the photos i took. That was all we saw, there were no more halos beyond that , that I and Don saw.

in the middle the sun.

there are two sundogs (parhelias).

the halo in which the sundogs show is the heliac arc or 22 degree halo.

the dish sitting on top of the 22 degree halo, is  the parry arc or upper tangent arc.

The second halo is 46 degree halo.

the dish on top of that is the circumzenithal arc

now in the photos i also see a slight halo in between the 22 degrees one and 46 degree one?  Or is that called the upper tangent arc, what is then the name of the dish itself?

okay, as i see it, the dish appears to be visible because of hasting's arc or one close to that, wegener's arc.

These two arcs themselves were not visible to me.

three-toed woodpecker

Is it a sign of spring?
The last few days we have heard the woodpeckers drumming.
Now i don't know if there is a difference in the sound of them tapping the tree, for foraging.
Or are they drumming to attract a mate?

endless loving

and i tell you it is a happy place

and i tell you i am happy 

and it is for no other reason

then that i am listening to old music

and that tree grew there and it died there

and it still stands

i, roaming the endless meadows

i tell you, flying low in that endless expanse

i imagine a city of the same dimension

how many people would live there

i can almost hear the hustle and bustle

we met two chickadees

goodbye my trusted friend

tada lalala

now that the spring is in the air

again i found the sun