Artur Grottger (Polish, 1837-1867) - Puszcza (z cyklu Lithuania) (The Forest (from the Lithuania series) (1864)
If you don’t live in a place where it happens you don’t have a sense of how cold it has to be for running water to turn to crystal like this. It has to be much colder than it has to be to freeze standing water. Take hand warmers in your pockets if you’re taking images like this. One time I didn’t and found I couldn’t move the fingers on my right hand at all. I had to bend them with my other hand in order to get my right hand into my coat pocket. ❄️🥶
Morris the cat at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer office, Seattle (1981)















