After the Jan 10-11 Cold Snap we enjoyed a couple of days of snow, resulting from an invasion of wet air from the Gulf and some wet air from evaporation off of Lake Huron/Georgian Bay.

Starting to insulate the upper surface of Byng Inlet ice,  making future snowmobilers unhappy:

The spruce trees, including this one at Reynold’s Rock are loading up:

The distant shores of Big Lake are obscured:

The tamarack/(dead) black spruce swamps are filling with snow.

This photograph is worth clicking on … to see the snowflakes against the sky, against the leafless trees and against the foreground snowbank:

Still River Road:

Still River Road, again, looking across the CPR tracks to see the wind-driven snow.

Across the road from my place.   Delicate, even when snowing hard.

A hundred feet further on:

Returning, following my tracks back out:

The next day, an opportunity to enjoy the snow sculptures in the neighbourhood:

Winter scenes are always changing, providing great opportunities for photographers.

Following the January thaw we had a cold snap which thickened the ice and stirred up some lake effect snow …

Big (Gereaux) Lake froze over:

The edges of the ditches ice moved out into the streamflow …

Byng Inlet froze over, locking St Amant’s dock poles into the ice, as “lake effect streamers” indicated what was to come:

The busy beaver featured in two previous posts severed the birch tree but it  hung up in the adjacent ash tree and a pole wire.

The lake effect snow was serious at times….

Blowing snow on the Old Still River Road:

Some cold clear hours  freezing over the mouth of the Still  River:

And ice floes floating down the Naiscoot at Twin Rivers:

Clear evening skies, indicating another night to tighten up the streams and ditches.

It almost seemed as though Mother Earth was getting prepped for the major snowfall on Jan 12-13.