ice

The picture is a screen grab from a worth watching Dutch TV program about the legendary Frisian ice race. But the picture is really only there because Piffin took the camera to Vancouver, otherwise I would have taken a similar picture myself. We went to the Toronto islands today, and there was even more ice on lake Ontario than the last time we went. It is simply magnificent to watch from the ferry. Big patches of shiny mirror like flat ice, bursting to pieces in long long fast traveling cracks, and then whole stretches with broken, pulverized ice, often frozen back together into big lumps. The blowing snow over all that ice. The deafening noise of all that ice underneath the boat. I hope for my friends who live on Ward's island that the ferry will prove strong enough to keep it up for a while, or else they will have to live an even more isolated life.