Rock Cracks

Rock cracks and mineral dissolution make interesting patterns - so much activity going on all the time that we don't see.

Changes

Our boat launch looks like this - a lot of ice, but the tipping point has been reached, and there's no going back now to full ice cover.

 The outflow from our lake looks like this just across the bridge

and the dam is spewing furiously (some flashboards are broken on the right hand side - again!)

Beautiful Mud

 I love seeing the icy patterns in the mud - fascinating

Erumpent Buds

Buds! I saw tiny red buds on a brown stick whilst standing on the cold lawn watching train boards go up in flames! It could be American linden? The oak leaf behind it is there for backdrop purposes only, and is not attached.

The Merrian Webster dictionary defines erumpent as bursting forth or through a surface. I think this budburst qualifies, though it is more usually used to describe forceful growth through a host surface, as fungi and algae do.