{"id":2034,"date":"2010-12-23T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2010-12-23T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:33:59","slug":"2034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2010\/12\/23\/2034\/","title":{"rendered":"Glassy skies and crystal waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/judder.jpg\" alt=\"avatar\" title=\"Can't have these with maple syrup!\">I find winter endlessly fascinating. Already people are complaining about the snow \u00e2\u20ac\u201d SNOBEPOCALYPSE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and looking forward to the thaw. Not I. I love winter. Autumn is my favourite season, because it&#8217;s full of smells and textures and sensations and promises. Winter, though&#8230; Oh a proper winter steals my heart away and puts it in a crystal box and whispers &#8220;You can have it back if you&#8217;re a very, <i>very<\/i> good girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And this year it <i>has<\/i> been a Proper Winter. We&#8217;ve had snow for weeks now, the roads icy beneath their demerara-sugar-and-beaten-butter slush; the fields white as a laundry powder commercial; the light so clear and brittle it feels like an entirely different world from the usual dreich greyscale of eastern Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>I took this picture while out in the field. I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk\/aberlady\/aberladybay\/index.html\">Aberlady Bay<\/a>, a nature reserve in East Lothian, not far from Gullane. There was thick ice covering the bed of the estuary, grey and organic-looking, as if an alien lifeform had oozed along there and left a trail; and these amazing circular structures of pancake ice on the surface. I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever get to see pancake ice in the wild. I must have been a very good girl indeed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ravenbait\/5286426262\/\" title=\"Aberlady Bay by Ravenbait, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5084\/5286426262_90779cf1f3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Aberlady Bay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autumn is my favourite season but a proper winter feels like coming home.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ravenbait\/5286574494\/\" title=\"Sunset at Aberlady Bay by Ravenbait, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5001\/5286574494_ce487699da.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Sunset at Aberlady Bay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find winter endlessly fascinating. 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