Sunday, March 20, 2011

Day 7 - The Weekend in Pictures.....and a Super Moon


We headed North on Saturday to check the cottage and have a weekend with nothing but the big beautiful North to entertain us.  Not telly, no Internet, no phone service.  I baked pies, and Belgian waffles with maple syrup we purchased from a Mennonite man right from the back of his horse and cart on the drive up, and spent the rest of the time faffing around with my camera.  We saw a beautiful hawk on the way up, but it misjudged the wind and speed and was hit by a car in front of us. 

The sunshine on the ice was like diamonds....brilliant and blinding.

The  ice in the harbour is starting to break and to shift, creating these enormous and spectacular cracks and shapes in the ice which reflected the sky in the most magnificent way.

What looks like water on top is actually divots and pockmarks in the ice.  It is still solid.  People were walking on it.

And on the unprotected side of the Bay, the ice and snow has been carried by the wind and has piled up on the rocks.

What looks like clouds above the lake is actually ice floes that have moved down down from Manitoulin Island...They were so brilliantly white against the sky today.

And then to end our day, we were treated to a Super Moon.  13%  larger than normal, something that occurs only occasionally, it was huge on the horizon, and bright.  It illuminated the entire harbour.  Did you think people seemed a little crazier last night....when I worked in the hospital we always knew when the full moon was happening......I wonder how it was with a Super Moon.!

13 comments:

  1. What a beautiful weekend you've captured with your pictures Chania! And that's too bad about the hawk. I wondered about the craziness and the super moon too!

    Have a wonderful week!

    Kat :)

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  2. Utterly stunning...how can you bear to leave it!

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  3. How absolutely stunning but how sad about the bird. The poor thing. I'd have been so upset to have seen that x

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  4. Your photos are stunning Chania and your weekend sounds so lovely. It is hard for me to imagine so much ice around and it being so thick that you can walk on it. xx

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  5. Beautiful. So glad you got away to your beautiful cottage, Bittersweet I suppose , as the spring will probably bring a buyer. : D

    xxx
    z

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  6. Stunning, stunning photos. We looked at the super moon here from Australia too.

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  7. As usual, gorgeous pictures Chania. I love the way you capture things in a way that is breathtaking and beautiful.

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  8. Your photos are absolutely stunning! Especially the ice breaking up in those jagged patterns. I love spring and am really missing our Muskoka place right now. And belgian waffles? um, yeah! :)

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  9. Chania your photos are too beautiful for words. You have really mastered that camera and then some. Just gorgeous!

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  10. My husband worked in a residential school for the blind. Full moon = crazy kids!

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  11. Ice flows.....wow really? I am so west coast and not familiar with these natural changes on the eastern half of Canada...they are stunning!
    And as I was looking at them I just started to crave a glass of ice water!

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  12. Your week end sounded really nice. I love the stunning pictures you've taken!

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  13. From coast to coast that stunning moon lit the night sky! Beautiful.

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I love to read each and every comment and are thrilled that you take the time to send one. Thank you so much. Chania