Breakfast – and puzzles – often have to be abandoned in favour of sunrise.
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This was one I needed to follow.
Zooming in…
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…and back out.
One should not lose sight of the big picture.
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Or the finer details.
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There were so many points to watch as the light caught the edges of each cloud….
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…and consumed it…
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…leaking through the gaps to diffuse the grey of departing night.
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Then the Sun climbed above the overcast and the day settled in.
With temperatures moderating, all our icicles fell down.
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But we grew some new ones.
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It’s a challenge to catch the drips.
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Examining another frost formation, I decided it looked like a horse.
Then I thought, no – two horses.
The one in the foreground has its head down.
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Viewed from the other side, the horses look a little ill-fed.
While I was out there, I happened to glance up and saw what seemed like a ghost peering at me from the window of the loft in the garage.
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The images I captured make it less ghostly, so you’ll have to take my word for it.
At first I thought it looked like an owl, though I’ll concede it doesn’t here.
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When I went closer, it turned into a goat.
In any case, it was no ghost.
In my childhood days, I lived for a while in a house that reportedly had a resident ghost. Not actually in the house, but in the garden and later on at one of the boarding schools I went to, students claimed to have seen the ghost of a long-departed nun. We were forbidden to speak of it, which made me suspect that it might be true but I never saw her myself.
Around the same time, I was home on holiday in Thailand when there was much excitement among the domestic help who told of a spirit jumping out of a kapok tree into one of the gardeners. The upsetting thing about it, as I recall, was that spirits were not supposed to inhabit kapok trees.
And that is the sum total of my experience with the spirit world, but I have an open mind.
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Thank you, Carolyn, for the spectacular photos of the sunrise and clouds suffused with golden light. I don’t believe in ghosts because, being scientifically minded, I would have to have proof of their existence. Having an open mind is commendable, and I follow the same mantra.
Joanna
I can see the Owl. It definitely looks like an Owl to me. Magnificent sunrise!
Best wishes, Pete.
Consider it lucky to have such limited encounters. I was not so fortunate although it did mean that I became a hardened skeptic in such matters. (Very nice sunrise and ice photos.)
Those icicles are magnificent!
Stunning sunrise pictures! Wow!!
Yes, I see the horse/ horses. Very cool!
I see a wolf, where you see the owl. 😊
Wow! That sunrise is stunning!
What an incredibly beautiful sunrise! It was definitely worth putting breakfast (and puzzles) aside for a moment! Translucent icicles and lovely frost art – it’s a winter’s day to remember (which you captured well with your camera). Oh yes, if you look quickly, that frosty picture looks like an owl … but when I look at it longer, it could be anything. Open mind, like you said 😊.