You better wear some warm clothes if you plan to sit for hours at -15ºC.
You better wear some warm clothes if you plan to sit for hours at -15ºC.
Large areas which are normally unaccessible become a place for sports and fun during during the winter. When the sea ice is thicker, you can even drive your own car to nearby islands.
Es como una enorme cáscara de huevo. 8 cm de hielo flotando sobre 20 o 30 metros de agua.
Today the sun was shining, so I went to the beach. Many other people also went there to enjoy the beautiful day. I walked on the frozen sea. I heard a fisherman say the ice is about 8 cm thick, and that it gets 1 cm thicker every day if it's -10ºC. Some people walked, others skated. Two even had ice boats that moved quickly over the ice without making any noise. The ice was perfectly flat, like polished, and with no snow on top of it. Like a thick glass full of art inside. I spent some time studying it closely and its beauty surprised me. I can't think of anything similar in nature. Different areas had different shapes. Sometimes it was full of something like spiral worms made of air, just a few millimeters long. It was like looking at cells in a microscope, but on 3D. I could move my head to one side or the other and observe how the floating shapes rotated. I also observed collections of non-parallel translucent planes. The best description I can think of is... imagine you have a hundred sheets of paper made of glass in your hand, and you throw them up in the air. When they are all floating, you take a 3D photo. That's what I saw below my feet. As I moved, and depending on the angle, these sheets reflected the sun light for a very short period of time. Something very special.
Vuonna 1891 kanadalaiselle opettajalle, James Naismithille, annettiin tehtäväksi keksiä uusi laji, jota oppilaat pystyisivät pelaamaan talvisin. Naismith toimi tällöin Springfieldissä, Massachusettsin paikallisessa NMKY:ssä. Naismith pyrki keksimään pelin, jossa ei olisi taklauksia ja fyysinen kontakti pyrittiin pitämään mahdollisimman vähäisenä. Esikuvana oli Naismithin lapsuudenpeli Duck on a Rock. Naismith pistikin pelissä maalit korkealle, jolloin lajissa tulisi korostumaan voiman sijaan taito. Hän löysi koulustaan kaksi luumukoria, jotka naulattiin koulun liikuntasalin seinille. Tämän jälkeen Naismith kirjoitti kolmetoistaosaisen säännöstön ja peli oli valmis.
Todas las mañanas me levanto antes de las 8 y voy a dar un paseo escuchando un podcast mientras veo a decenas de niños caminando hacia el colegio. En la foto lo que vi hoy al despertarme. Parece que esta noche fue la primera gran nevada, así que me llevé la cámara y el trípode a dar una vuelta.