Two views from yesterday's fjord, which is increasingly iced (hoping for wild skating soon, but that's unlikely bc of high winds sculpting all the surface water)
Left - high winds visible in the water and ice. The only liquid water left, and only a cubic meter or so where a fast moving stream runs into the fjord
Right - dramatic skies over slushed and iced waves, the history of the surf visible in the surface
The fjord iced over last week, and I did a texture walk over it - my favourite are always the wide expanses of gorgeous, delicate, geometric wafers that sound (and feeeeeeeel) like shooting stars when you cronch through them
Interesting listening to #BBCScotland Scotland Outdoors just now.
In the segment on snow, the presenter Mark Stephen talked about colours of snow and mentioned watermelon snow - the colour is due to microalgae. More specifically the red carotenoids in them they use to protect themselves from intense light
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