Sunday, December 04, 2022

Snowy drive

While the snow was fresh and spotless, I took the highway west as far as Echo Lake, then returned down a gravel road that runs behind the lake and wanders here and there, following the whims of a browsing deer, it seems, eventually making its way back to the other highway.

The road was smoothed by clean, packed snow. Easy driving, easy on the eyes.

Near the end, "civilization" in view. (Overhead wires.)

Second lake. In the sunlight, the trees are shedding snow. (Centre of the photo.)

Snowy branches overhead.

Another lake view. The pinkish shrubs are hardhack, the green stems are the invasive broom.

Big-leaf maples. Where the sun shines, all is warm browns; in the shade, blues and blacks.

And then I crossed the Quinsam river. About that, tomorrow.

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 Mientras la nieve era nuevecita y sin manchas, tomé la carretera hacia el oeste hasta el lago Echo, y luego regresé por un camino, que pasa detrás del lago, y luego anda de aquí para allá, siguiendo las huellas, o así parecía, de un venado buscando pasto, hasta que por fin se desemboca en la otra carretera. El camino normalmente es de grava, y lleno de baches, pero ahora está bajo una capa de nieve limpia, bien comprimida. En esas condiciones, el viaje se hacía sin dificultades y me presentaba vistas bellas.

Fotos:
  1. Cerca del final de la ruta; se ve, en la distancia, las lineas eléctricas.
  2. El segundo lago que pasé. Con el calor del sol, la nieve se está derritiendo, y cae de los árboles como si todavía estuviera nevando.
  3. La nieve en las ramas.
  4. Otra vista de un lago.
  5. Un arce de hojas grandes, en el sol. Donde no pega el sol, la luz es azul.
Y luego crucé el rio Quinsam. Eso lo dejo para mañana,




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