Ice

Some posts don’t naturally form around one theme but ‘ice’ is hands down an easy theme for this one!

Last night we had tickets for the international puppet festival, and we saw ‘Anywhere’ – a performance with a marionette made of ice. The puppeteer lives in Iceland and as we observed last summer in Iceland, when ice is mentioned in Iceland you can be sure there’s water too. The puppet was constructed from quite a few parts so its movements were really natural and charming, and as the performance went on it melted quite a bit, making drips that caught the light and looked quite spectacular.

These photos are from just after the show ended, when the audience was invited to come look at the puppet and stage.

Today we drove to Michigan and took a walk on the beach. It’s always different in different seasons but we haven’t ever seen this much snow and ice on the lake water itself. I guess the top layer freezes then snow heaps on? When standing on the sand, the snow and ice stretch to the horizon line. Only from an elevated point, like the stairs leading off the beach, can you see the lake water and a very slushy, rolling band beyond the snow and ice.

It’s -2 C, 29 F, with a warning that Monday and Tuesday will be COLD. I guess that’s why there were a fair number of people out today! I bet the next blog post has an ice theme too!