Photo Meme

[jesse_the_k]

from mific

"I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture on your page. A picture that you took. Just a pic. No description (but yes alt text!). The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on your page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures."

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Can't resist the urge to share what I've learned.

This thick coating of frozen stuff is called "rime ice." This intersection of cold trees and cold fog makes for an even thickness.

Not this year, but many times, I've seen "hoar frost," which happens in clear weather, when ice crystals form on the branches, in all their fractal uneven beauty.

More details: https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2021/01/05/whats-difference-between-rime-ice-and-hoar-frost/6553534002/

[mific]

It's lovely, so stark and delicate.

[jesse_the_k]

And it was everywhere ... we had three days of ice fog and the inverse got a thin white edge. Felt like I was in a snow globe.

[marina]

Wow that's absolutely stunning

:,)

[jesse_the_k]

plus the roads weren't icy. So a double win!

[pauraque]

Nice shot! We get a lot of that around here.

I'm pleased to see that somewhere along the line this meme has acquired the addition of "but yes alt text!" For a few weeks I've been seeing it passed around without that, and though some people were including alt text anyway, the "no description" thing without any accessibility qualifier didn't sit well with me.

[jesse_the_k]

I almost cut the "no description" because I prefer including image descriptions in the body of any post. Literal alt-text is HTML that lives in the web page, so it's lost when someone shares just the image.

Are you in a valley or on a mountain top? It was the first time I'd seen rime ice, deposited by a series of icy fog days.

[pauraque]

We're in the Winooski River valley that connects to the larger Lake Champlain valley. They get more fog (and thus more rime) closer to the lake, but we get it here too.

Ahhhhh.

[jesse_the_k]

The very best days of my childhood were summers near Plymouth. Up North Wisconsin has some of the same birds, foliage, and definitely lots of water, but I do miss the mountains.

My only winter experience was an off-the-grid cabin near Sheffield (which also served as the hq of the "Sheffield Wreath Co., So Fresh You Can Smell the Difference." Two months of wreath-making and selling in NYC floated that enterprise year round.)

[peachpai]

What a good meme! Also, this is very pretty, the tree in the foreground has such a graceful shape.

Thanks.

[jesse_the_k]

That street's on the way to my local library. I've been walking there for 34 years. We lost two of my street-tree pals in a tornado 15 years ago, and I miss them

[starshipfox]

Beautiful! I love the monochromatic quality, and how the picture captures that strange whiteness the sky gets during snowy weather.

[jesse_the_k]

Strange whiteness is exactly it.

[wordweaverlynn]

Lovely.

thanks!

[jesse_the_k]

:,)

[nanila]

Every twig, so daintily outlined. Lovely.

[jesse_the_k]

:)