I’d like to salute anyone working outside in these conditions. Workers repairing water main breaks, delivering heating oil or collecting trash. To our fire and police out and about in these temps. And many more braving these conditions.

Next I ventured out today to utilize a few minutes after a few errands. Sweat suit w/hoodie and big coat on top of that. I lasted about 40 minutes. I’m going to have to buy some long johns if I want to stay outside for a while in this weather. I’ll wear that one piece body suit tomorrow. Gloved are the issue. I’ve got some old biker gloves I might try tomorrow with the fingertips cut off.

I did manage to capture a few shots on the Patapsco. And the Nikon zoom worked great in 16 degree temps.

Wildlife is remarkable.

When I started out I didn’t plan on shooting ice.

It just caught my eye.

And what illustrated cold more than ice.

I’d rather look at this ice instead of the ICE that seems to be popular in the political ranks now.

I might hit a couple of other bodies of water tomorrow.

Looks like something tried to add to this sculpture.

Such interesting formations.

All Photos by Mike Hartley