Stone Mountain Meanderings

All wet

Did someone really say,
'A Universe in every drop.'
...

(I didn't think so.)

 

© 141220-002  Raindrop on Twig
    Stone Mountain Park
    Saturday 20 December 2014
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Think Twice

Lake ice rarely visits the Park.

There's pool, pond and puddle ice.

Often leaf, twig and rock ice.

Even soil, drip and splash ice.

But, Lake ice - think  twice.

 

 

© 140126-002 Lake Ice
  Stone Mountain Park
  Sunday 26 January 2014
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Suspended Disbelief

 

Grinding suspended today
     laws of physics, too.
Icicles point down
     or, so I thought I knew.




© 140125-014 Frozen Mill Wheel
  Stone Mountain Park
  Saturday 25 January 2014
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Cold, cold feet

     This resident 'dabbling ducks' couple temporarily suspended their daily dabblings this morning hunkering down instead under the oppressive 18°F wind chill, while hastily deconstructing their strategic decision to stay in the Park instead of migrating further south. They showed no concern about the approaching camera lens, (Notice the male's left foot anchored, against the stiff wind, to an underwater branch.) That's, Anas platyrhynous.




© 140118-001 Cold Mallards
  Stone Mountain Park
  Saturday 18 January 2014
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Rhymecicles

Ice and snow seldom show,

     tho' hope runs high each year.

Drips may grow yet I know,

     they quickly disappear.





© 140104-009 Ice at Rock Notch
    Stone Mountain Park
    Saturday 04 January 2014
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Hexagonal Ice Columns

+24°F (-4°C) last night,
        dashed to the Park early.
Located a patch of hexagonal ice columns,
        still nurtured by water vapor deposition.



     “This particular crystal habit of ice is characterized by hexagonal cross section in a plane perpendicular to the long direction of the columns. Growth by vapor deposition at temperatures of from -3° to about -8°C leads to growth of columnar crystals, though other crystal features (needles, scrolls) also appear in this temperature interval, depending on the degree of water vapor super saturation.”  American Meteorological Society.



©131128-001 Frost Ice Columns
Stone Mountain Park
Thursday 28 November 2013
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Sometimes the fog

 

Sometimes the fog
     exposes more than it hides
A barren moonscape
     strewn with pottery shards
And not far from home.



©131122-005 Outcrop in fog
Stone Mountain Park
Friday 8 November 2013
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