Wednesday, January 22, 2014

RIVER AT -1˚F

If you've ever wondered what a modest Ohio river looks like at sub-zero temperatures…wonder no more! Here's the Cottage Riffle, which is located about thirty feet from where I now sit typing, at 8:30 or so this morning, when the rising was just varnishing the sycamores, and it was minus one degree Fahrenheit outside—but, thank God, a toasty sixty-eight here in the great room.

I used to go fishing for steelhead trout in weather this cold and colder—wading favorite Michigan rivers until my blood congealed and I had to come back to the truck or a bankside campfire for a brief interlude of thawing out. Either I'm turning into a wuss in my dotage, or I've gotten smarter, but nowadays in such weather I'm content to let the old blue heron do the wade-fishing while I watch in heated comfort from indoors.

Of course, seeing as how there are no steelhead to be angled for in these Buckeye streams, that's a pretty easy temptation to resist. 

Now if there were… 
   

8 comments:

The Weaver of Grass said...

I love the touch of the sun on the trees Grizz.

Gail said...

HI GRIZZ - oh how I love the stunning picture of your river in cold Winter, a golden hue of sun filtering on the trees and icy waters - the capture is beautiful. We too are sub zero and blanketed with 8" of fluffy snow.
I emailed you, did u get it? Let me know, if not I can re-send.
I am happy to see you my friend.
Love Gail
peace.....

George said...

It looks awfully cold, Grizz, and I'm sure it is. At least you have found a warm and peaceful refuge in your cottage. Here's hoping that the cottage is on the mend, that your back is holding up, and the spring will soon give us all a reprieve from the frigid weather.

Grizz………… said...

Weaver…

Me, too. It's that juxtaposition, bright warm sunlight against dark cold shadows, that makes the scene.

Grizz………… said...

Gail…

Thank you. And yes, I did receive your email. Didn't answer right away because you said you'd be offline with the new computer and all. But I appreciated hearing from you. I hope things are going better with your sister.

Grizz………… said...

George…

Yup. It's as cold out there as it looks. And hasn't gotten any better as the day progressed. While I normally don't mind, I'm currently dreading and procrastinating as long as possible the necessary task of having to bring in a couple more carrier loads of firewood.

The back's in pretty fair shape at the moment. Of course there's rally not much work we can do given the weather…can't saw, stain, or paint indoors, nor do anything which requires shutting off the power or plumbing for an extend period. Doesn't seem like good masonry or tiling weather, either. Or maybe I'm just lazy—dreading and procrastinating about any remodeling start. I do think a little hint of spring would help.

Out To Pasture said...

I love your blog, Griz! In fact, you inspired me to start one as well -- which I did this week.
http://buzzandflutter.blogspot.ca/

I like your colour/configuration much better than mine -- still a newby in the sport. Thank you for your writings!

Grizz………… said...

Out To Pasture…

Hey, thank you for your nice words. Sorry to be so slow in replying—it's been a busy weekend (for a change!) and I'm obviously in sort of a lazy slump when it comes to new posts. The worst I've ever been, actually.

Anyway, welcome to Riverdaze and welcome to the world of blogging. Lord knows I was a rank amateur when I began blogging, and I'm not too much better than that now when it comes to the technical stuff. It's really pretty easy "hands-on" learning. If it required a lot of skill, I'd not be able to manage.

One thing I've done, which you might consider, is I have a second "test" blog, purely private, with a half-dozen or so posts—photos and text—copied from here. Everything is identical. And I use that "shadow" blog purely to fiddle around with layout issues, color schemes, fonts, etc.. whatever changes I want to make. I get it right and working there before I apply here and mess with my actual woking blog.