The Frozen Almonte Waterfalls

I opened my eyes to see Sue standing near my chair over by the coffee maker. Quelle surprise! I looked at the clock. It was almost 7:30: also a surprise. Sue had been wondering what to do because she needed her morning coffee, but as usual I had set mine up the night before. Awake now, I told her just to press the button to make mine since I was now awake.

What an unusual beginning to the day because, as I reported yesterday, I am usually, as in 364 days of the year, up well before my beloved, often hours before.

Siri, via my sleep app, reported that I had just over seven hours of sleep, but I think she cheated me out of an hour (the gal ain't perfect!), so let's call it eight. Millions of people get eight almost every night, but I only manage it once or twice per year, so I want to claim every darn second.

It was a cold morning, colder than zero Fahrenheit. We simply call it the Old Zero. So what could we do for our daily outing in those temperatures?

Cold weather can really drain batteries, so we felt that we needed to give Hermione the Honda a better run than piddling around town. So, we headed up to Almonte.

While walking in Almonte, despite the frigid temperature, we weren't overly cold because we know all about layering. However, you can't really layer your hands, and when you want to take pictures, you do need to remove your gloves. (You may recall that I lost my photo gloves with the peelable finger tips last winter.)

Sue was looking for high contrast photos. I pointed to this wonderful verandah with all of the shadows, but she didn't much care for it. I don't mind it though. It suits the high contrast theme for sure, and it is a darn, eye-catching structure, hanging over the main street.

We walked down to the waterfalls and saw that they had iced up wonderfully. I took a couple of pretty quick photos. With a somewhat less cold day and proper equipment, one could do a great study, but I am happy enough to get a couple of hit-and-run snaps. They are highly cropped in post because I couldn't focus tightly enough to isolate the good parts with my normal lens.

I confess that we were pretty darn eager to return to the car to warm our freezing digits. Afterall, digital photography is not meant to be about frozen digits.