Posted on 12/06/2017 4:40:37 PM PST by mairdie
Plunging temperatures have one very definite upside - they can change the landscape into a winter wonderland.
And lakes and rivers can be transformed into beautiful natural ice rinks.
These mesmerising images, from China to Canada with Europe in-between, show rinks that are all a paradise for skaters.
And photographers, too, of course.
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Coyotes
Well, no lakes that freeze over and no rinks in Tucson.
We always had a fire and tons of hot chocolate
They gave Skiing on Mt Lemmon!
But yer right lakes don’t freeze in Tucson.
Looks like more fun than an IPhone :)
I thought that Tucson was a pretty good sized town.
Rumor has it that the south side of Chicago is a little less wonderful today than it once was.
Mark17 - ping
Cool! I grew up in Minnesota, and one of the neighbors had sons that were all real good hockey players (one to the Olympics iirc.) They would put up boards in their backyard, flood it and made a regulation sized rink during the winter. Me and my buddies that pretended we could skate okay would go across the street to the pond.
Works for me : )
The old Man built a rink in the backyard presumably to keep us in clear sight.
It failed we played on the ice in the woods
When I built a website for our grammar school’s 50th, I heard that they took a bus to visit the school but had to have a police escort for the bus.
I remember Lake Louise. Absolutely awestruck.
Also by the huge parking lots in Edmonton that were honeycombed with poles from which dropped electrical cords to warm up and start each car.
One of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen was clear black river ice - it must have been two feet thick, and captured in it were air bubbles and great swirling ribbons where the ice had cracked and refrozen. Looking into it was like looking into space, with stars and galaxies.
Every now and then the river would shift and crack as we walked over it, with a noise like a deep guitar string being pluced.
Plucked.
So much for waxing potetic.
Yes, Lake Louise. It would get my vote.
I know that sound we would spread out on our bellys and make way to shore
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