Yesterday, winter festivities
Posted on | February 12, 2006 | 10 Comments
I love living in a place where instead of complaining about the cold, people celebrate it for a good cause. There was hot coffee to be had amidst the revelry, as groups of costume clad folk made their way down to the water and JUMPED IN. There was whooping and gafawing and general yodeling going on as the DJ played “Cold as Ice” and brave souls got wet. Mind you, they needed to break the ice from the water first.
I’m not a brave soul, but I took pictures.
We had a wonderful morning outside in bright winter sunlight, an afternoon nap that stretched on until early evening—the three of us to a bed. Then I managed to squeeze in a five mile run at the gym which brought my first week of marathon training to a close with my cumulative total miles run adding up to twenty. This is the first winter I haven’t gone into hibernation, and I’m pretty thrilled.
Enjoy the chilly pics. There are more here.
Ski jump eyelashes.
Ice sculpture
Rocks on ice.
Uncarved blocks of ice.
Chilly.
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February 12th, 2006 @ 10:56 am
Well, whaddayaknow, we were at that very same place Saturday afternoon. And it was a GREAT day to be outside. My kids were most impressed by the natural ice sculptures at the edge of the lake and, of course, the ducks.
February 12th, 2006 @ 11:16 am
You didn’t take the plunge?! Hee! *brr* I can’t even IMAGINE jumping in water voluntarily that you have to break the ice away from first. Wonderful photos!!
February 12th, 2006 @ 1:04 pm
Those people are on crack.
Glad you had fun and the ice shots are beautiful!
February 12th, 2006 @ 2:14 pm
what beautiful eyelashes! great photos!
February 12th, 2006 @ 3:01 pm
we had a charity plunge in our city yesterday too. I didn’t go in either. Brrr! There was ice on the lake, so someone ahead of time broke up a large area of the ice near the shore. Not so deep to be dangerous, but deep enough to get really dunke. By the time the brave folks who did take the plunge were out of the water, ice was already starting to form again. Yikes!
I love that bottom photo — it’s absolutely beautiful; Nature is the best artist! It looks like an ice waterlily flower.
February 12th, 2006 @ 3:03 pm
I love all the ice pictures. I know they’re dangerous but I love a good ice storm. You’d think I’d have had ice sculptures at my wedding or something. (=
Your son’s eyelashes are amazing ~ criminal really. What we all do with makeup to get ours to look like that.
February 12th, 2006 @ 4:03 pm
I had a very cozy weekend (we got snow!) and at one point I actually wondered what you were up to…glad to see you didn’t disappoint with your wintry weekend stories/pics! And, Bean darling, you are cursed/blessed with beautiful eyelashes! My brother has a set just like yours, and boys love to point out how feminine it is (hence the curse), but every girl he has met has been perfectly entranced (the blessing you have to look forward to!). If you ever have a sister, she will be insanely jealous of you…
February 12th, 2006 @ 5:46 pm
Those are the most beautiful eyelashes I’ve ever seen.
February 13th, 2006 @ 7:18 am
Beautiful pics of nature and Bean. I have been meaning to write to you about an awesome audio-guided workout program that I use. I absolutely love these programs. They are interval training workouts and I don’t know how it fits in your marathon training schedule. I use it just for fun, just love, love, love them. You can read up more about it at http://www.cardiocoach.com. The music is kind of New Agey and I like it, to me the whole package is soul nourishing.
February 14th, 2006 @ 8:05 pm
Whatever gets you through winter, that’s the motto up here in Ashland, WI. We have an event coming up called Book Across the Bay where people ski across the frozen part of Lake Superior for charity. At night. I’m pretty excited to check it out this weekend.