Misty mornings giving way to mostly gray skies continue. Temperatures hover between 25 overnight to near 40 during the day. Yesterday after a crunchy walk/snowshoe around the mountain loop, I went to the front porch.
Snow melting off the roof provided a symphony in the form of drips and plops on the snow and rocks.
I started with Karl for company…
Bob joined the party.
And…
…finally Steve.
Karl and I walked the mountain loop in the crunchy slush just before sunset. It had been mostly gray and overcast all day, but cleared late afternoon. Temperatures in the 30’s felt mild in the late sunshine and we dawdled on our way.
Not quite alpenglow but the setting sun lit the mountain tops showing them off against the dark clouds.
Photo taken 2/4/2010.
From this morning. That bit of blue at Karl’s chin is his lighted collar.
After a short spurt of Winter, we are back to slush and a dreary mess. But the gray and the mist have their own beauty. And it is both the wonder of “what will it be today” and the mix of things that weave the tapestry of life…and I’m not speaking of only the weather :).
Happy Wednesday!
Enough fresh snow to coat the trees. The wedding tree still stands as does the slash pile awaiting bonfire night. Karl keeps watch.
Bob keeps watch from his own venue under the dryer vent. (Yes, someone needs to clean the lint out of that vent!!)
A drive on a back road. On such a Winter’s day.
Still water, so still that without the perspective of the shoreline there was that illusion that it was possible to fall into the sky.
Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10
I can’t help but think of that verse when standing at this point on the lake on a day like this day.
Be peaceful, be quiet, be still.
Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, January 29, 2010.
For the forseeable future I have a Friday online meeting, a kind of “show and tell” as we proceed through development on the current project. At the end of the meeting we promise what is to be done by the next Friday and all through the week we push to keep to that schedule. The goal is to be in good shape by the end of Wednesday and have Thursday to test and tweak. The reality is that we are generally coding like “madmen”, doing minimal testing before and then crossing our fingers and toes through the Friday meeting…
Afterward, we have a hurried wrap party and then call it a week. This has worked nicely for the family Douglas as we’ve instituted a kind of Friday afternoon out. Yesterday was perfect for this – the sun was out, the roads are bare and dry and the only difficulty was deciding which direction to head.
We headed back to the park (Glacier National Park) to see how things looked in the sunshine, having seen them in mostly fog last Sunday. Oh, MY! – Lake McDonald was like glass, a mirror to the surrounding scenery…so clear and sharp in reflection that you almost lost your sense of up and down and felt like you could fall into the sky and the “bottom” of the mountains.
We also discovered that Apgar campground is open for winter camping. And there were spots cleared that would hold a Winnebago. Plans were discussed – our departure for New Mexico is on hold pending some things that need to be done here but an overnight or 2 in the park, with a view of Lake McDonald and probably no neighbors, has its appeal.
Then we headed for home…
You were expecting the lake reflection mountain shots???
Later for those park photos…
photos taken 1/27/2010, first 2 about 15 minutes before sunset at 5:15, the moon an hour later.
