the water-covered world

[asakiyume]

We know this is a water world, three-fourths covered in water, and we know the waters can drink up more land--rains can cause rivers to lap up flood plains, climate change can make oceans gulp down shores. And in winter, in the north, dry land becomes flooded, and the floodwaters stand. Right now my world is covered in nearly three feet of water--in the form of snow. And Boston is flooded by some six feet and more.

Here are some more photos of the waves....

Comments

[egg-shell.livejournal.com]

I love your "frozen waves"!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love them too--I drag people out in the freezing cold to see them.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

"Amid timebound waves" is pretty apt.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Definitely--what is that from?

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Final Fantasy XIII.

[marycatelli]

We've got some lovely waves here, too, with the stratified snow. . .

But I'm ready for the February thaw, thank you kindly.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I bet you do! Have you taken any pictures?

[marycatelli]

'fraid not.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I'm ready for July.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It'll come :-)

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are lovely!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I just have a point-and-click camera, so it's the subject matter that does it :-)

[pameladean]

Oh, how gorgeous. There is nothing quite like snow-light.

P.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Truth! This evening I watched the sun set over the snowy woods. Beautiful.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

The snow drifts look just like sand dunes!

.....I can't imagine that much snow.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it? I guess it's much the same--tiny particles of stuff, sculpted by the wind.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely!

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The wind is an excellent sculptor!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Funny how snowdrifts and dunes seem to obey the same physics!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I keep on wanting to put objects of different size and shape into the snow, at different slants, to see how the wind moves the snow around them. (I haven't done it yet, though... one of these days... or years...)

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

I love the curves on those waves, especially the first one. (As an aside, a Swedish friend today was telling us how a surfer took up snowboarding in Sweden and found it surprisingly difficult - until there was a mini-avalanche and the snow started collapsing underneath and everyone was amazed that he stayed upright - he said it started to feel like water again...)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That is *very* interesting! It began to move, and so he felt at home.

I was wondering if one could go sledding on sand dunes. But sand, being made of bits of earth-stuff (rock, or shell, or whatever), seems more dangerous to me than snow, which is just water....

[genarti]

I believe people do -- I've seen photographs of people sand-skiing or sandboarding.

It makes me wonder if that's bad for the local ecosystem or not. My impulse is always to wince, because I know driving around off-road in the desert can wreak havoc, but I don't actually know enough about desert ecosystems to know if I'm being needlessly fretful. Maybe it's no worse than a strong wind.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Yes, people slide down dunes at the beach here too, usually on bits of plastic.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know in some areas they don't like people *climbing* the dunes because (I think?) it interferes with the plant and animal life trying to establish itself/themselves there. I think there must be a sliding scale of damage, though--however damaging a person walking is, I'm sure an all-terrain vehicle is much worse.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

That is a lot of snow. Thank you for a vicarious winter, better than none and better than too much. :P

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

A Goldilocks amount of winter: juuuuuuuust right :-)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, so beautiful!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think so too!

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

wow

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

right??

[deponti.livejournal.com]

What lovely photos and words to go with them. I am not enjoying the early summer of Bangalore and wish I could visit!

LJ has opened up, I am rushing to the next friend's post!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

If you visited, you could ride down my toboggan path :-)

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

It looks like your neck of the woods got about the same amount of snow that ours has gotten.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

About two and a half feet?

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

About that. Enough to make it very hard to walk through.