The art of nature … at first glance the ice looks like doves beside the river, and then you wonder how did that form?
Natures art comes at a price though. The freeze is still with us but it is not as cold as it has been in previous nights. Rain/sleet fell early yesterday morning and froze solid, covering everything in half an inch of solid ice. Everything ground to a halt and early morning commuters were left with treacherous road conditions with many of them turning around and staying at home for the day. While in town all day, walkers were better off walking on the roads because the footpaths had not been salted and were just plain dangerous.
The picture taken by Nellie Healy appeared on the Irish Independent website in a gallery entitled The Big Freeze
I was looking for a large bag of salt yesterday which wasn’t available in Dairygold. On my way out the gate, a large lorry load of salt passed in front of me on its way to the council yard. So close I could nearly touch it, but yet so far away!
… Even the council are running out of salt!
Sincere congratulations to Nellie Healy on a truly superb and totally fascinating snow picture entitled “Birds of Ice” by a river in the Kilcorney Heights area. Such a pictorial gem certainly deserves to be featured on the “Irish Independent” in its “The Big Freeze” picture gallery for global viewing! The images resemble doves of peace…an uplifting symbol for 2010.
it is a fantastic pic. well done nel.
this is an excellent picture, really shows the awful weather we had but what beauty can come out of it, if we just took notice.
very nice photo.really enjoying the website.
what a beautiful picture, so well captured!!
excellent pic, could be interpreted, as a ‘crib’ or a ‘bird’
scene. well done, to the photographer, to get out there, and show her artistic flair, during that very cold weather
such a beautiful pic, well done
beautiful picture, regret now, that i didn’t get out there also, and capture such great scenes, in that cold weather, well done Nellie