Or, at least, if you lived here you could be forgiven for thinking this is true. It is also true that there are small signs of spring: the pussy willows are indeed popping out of their dark skins, the birds already have a little spring fever, the days are longer, brighter… But it’s still pretty cold. Just yesterday it snowed. Again.
Today the sun was shining, though, with enough warmth to start a slow melt of the little glaciers that line the streets. They are retreating incrementally. I spent hours out in nature but it was only on the walk home, looking at that gritty street-side snow and those small puddles, that I found images I liked. A slow shutter for a slow spring.
[Images of pavement, snow and ice, made while walking]
*Spring is not really extinct. I hope.
© Karen McRae, 2015
draw and shoot 
Marvelous tones and textures, Karen. Spring is near…
Thank you, Jane. : )
It can’t be much longer now! Sigh.
Such wonderful, painterly images. I especially like the first one, it is like a storm, conveying the power of nature, showing us how much is outside our control. It must have felt like a long winter for you. Maybe tomorrow you will wake up and all will be green and shining!
Ah, it will be a while before it’s green but we are inching in that direction. : )
Thanks so much, Anna, I’m happy you like these smudgy leftover winter images.
Winter will be defeated, if only to gather strength and, once the colors of Fall are muted, will return in its wondrous fury. Great post. 🙂
I’m just looking forward to throwing open all the windows and doors on the first warm day! Thanks for your comments. : )
Me too!!!
Beautiful images. I like them Karen.
Thank you, Yoshizen, the light and shadow coming from and through the trees caught my eye.
Very interesting images Karen. I love the movement!
Just playing around, Adrian, but I like to do that! 🙂
Beautiful pictures!
Spring went into exile and came to Europe. The second year now, we have not had a real winter. We had a “sprinter” or a “wing”, a strange new kind of season with temperatures like in early spring, but trees without leaves. We had one or two days with snow and the children came out with sleds and started building snow men although it was already wet and melting from the beginning. One day we had nearly 18° C, although it was still frosty in the night. The crocuses and daffodils came out in February. On some days, you can see people in t-shirts outside. We don’t have real winter weather again in most years now. Only every couple of years you get one or two real winters, and even these are not they way I remember them from the 1960s and 1970s, when winters sometimes lasted into April and we had high snow for weeks every year.
here too Spring has difficulties evicting King Winter !!!!
Love it-“a slow shutter for a slow spring”. It’s true:) But still beautiful, never the less.
As Always, wonderful stuff, beautifully thought out and photographed. Here : Storm, Rain, Hail, Grey, Greyer, Very Grey, Storm. Daffs are being flattened. I give up and have retreated to computer!!
I can’t wait to see what you will do when the Spring finally arrives! I can feel it churning in your images of the late winter gloom.
What perfect captures of winter’s slow slide into spring.
Wonderful set of images (as usual)! I love the soft feeling in them.
Beautiful
Great tones within these shots Karen. Spring is here and on its way to you – we mowed yesterday for the first time this season.
Fab images- a passion of mine too. Love the subtle tones and softly blurred images😊
Sigh….at least we have the long days…. Soon soon, I’m sure. It comes back every year 🙂
incredible
Great images, as always. I love to moody, monochromatic palette wishing for spring.
Two days ago it got so warm that right before sunset all the snow started to steam. The trees were a damp black from the rain, shrouded in this bizarre fog that literally rolled down the hills.
Then it snowed and it all looked like winter again.
I wish I could have had you right here to capture the moment as you’ve captured these mystical melts.
As always, beautiful.
The everlasting winter…coming from the West coast, I envy the snow ~ but then I look at the angst in these photos of yours and see the frustration of the extinction of spring (love the title of this post as well). Beautiful Karen ~
These are great! Beautiful abstracts and very much to my taste.