{"id":2041,"date":"2011-01-10T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2011-01-11T01:02:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:02:50","slug":"winter-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2011\/01\/10\/winter-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/feather.jpg\" alt=\"avatar\" title=\"Some things speak for themselves\"> I have a couple of pictures for you today and not many words to go with them. The first is a photograph of a red squirrel. He was on a tree above the Falls at Acharn, which when we visited were frozen into a cascade of sharpened, jagged teeth and chaotic, amorphous, billowing pillows of sugary ice. I will post pictures of that when I&#8217;ve decided which are the best.<\/p>\n<p>My mum thought this little chap was playing peek-a-boo around tree. To me he looked more like a celebrity fleeing the paparazzi, and I was lucky to get a shot of him at all. He was last seen scampering across a fallen tree under the bridge to escape our enthusiastically pointing fingers. The red squirrel is up there on the shortlist of Scotland&#8217;s iconic animals, along with the Highland Coo and the haggis. I&#8217;ve always assumed that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ratatoskr\">Ratatoskr<\/a> was a red.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ravenbait\/5343214569\/\" title=\"Squeeble! by Ravenbait, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5244\/5343214569_e4e915ee63.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Squeeble!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This second picture I took on a horrible, grim, dreich day when the snow was starting to soften and melt. Frood was attempting to stack rocks on the shores of Loch Tay and grumbling about the soft schist and cold fingers. I was disappointed by the light and lack of things to photograph. And then I saw this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ravenbait\/5343832476\/\" title=\"Winter tears by Ravenbait, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5203\/5343832476_dac4df47d4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Winter tears\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not entirely sure what process caused this ice formation, with its fat drops hanging from the brittle, delicate sheet above. I could hazard some guesses and have pondered it at length. And yet, at the same time, I am content to have found a moment of startling and unexpected beauty and captured an echo of it as a souvenir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a couple of pictures for you today and not many words to go with them. The first is a photograph of a red squirrel. 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