... on the last day of fall, on Lake Mendota, in the state park of the Gaylord Nelson, where we hiked across stretches of a thousand shades of brown...
We need more ice and more snow and we settle in for the solstice.
ADDED: I don't know about you, but for me, when my clinking ice video ended, YouTube sent me to an ASMR video "Bowl of Ice Cubes, wonderful tapping/rain sounds."
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The sound of clinking ice without the anticipation of fine Scotch seems like a terrible waste. Peaty, smoky Scotch. I love nature!
I always imagine nature is having a cocktail party.
Somehow the first 2 commenters are anticipating the next post!
Thanks - I never knew about that sound.
I think that is the sound of the waves cracking the ice that has formed, not the ice forming itself.
See those Canadian geese? They're all coming to the DC area to take over every open space near a body of water (e.g. the National Mall). And, by God, they're not going to leave until they've deposited a tidy lump of goose droppings on every bit of it!
Come Spring, maybe they'll decide to head North. But, more & more, they've decided that hanging South all year is just a peachy idea that really saves the wear & tear on those wing tendons, doncha know. Thus, even 4th of July visitors to the Mall get to step around fresh goose shit.
"I think that is the sound of the waves cracking the ice that has formed, not the ice forming itself."
Yes, it's the sound of loose ice "cubes" clinking against each other. Happens both at freeze up and ice out.
Ice formation has an eerie sound...sort of a zoooot. Hard to describe. Google it.
"I think that is the sound of the waves cracking the ice that has formed, not the ice forming itself."
Some of it may be waves cracking the ice into shards but I think the sound is mostly those shards clinking against each other as the liquid water moves them about. If you look closely, you can see that there are many little overlapping plates of ice that close to the shore are getting frozen together, but are moving around out at the edge of where the ice is forming. It's not the kind of ice you're hoping for if you want to go ice skating.
In "person," it sounded very much like broken glass.
I called it the "sound of ice formation" because I'm thinking of the way the surface of the lake is getting covered with ice. It's a process involving a stage where there are plates of ice floating around and gradually getting frozen together into a continuous unit.
Warning noise for scuba divers? The ice age stopped at Wisconsin and it wants to be remembered?
"Ann Althouse said...
I called it the "sound of ice formation" because I'm thinking of the way the surface of the lake is getting covered with ice. It's a process involving a stage where there are plates of ice floating around and gradually getting frozen together into a continuous unit."
That's not how it works.
Reminded me of the sharding we saw a few years back. That was really noisy.
I started watching that "bowl of ice cubes" video.
Wow. It was a dead ringer for the Saturday Night Live NPR sketches. The woman is soft-spoken and way too into playing with a bowl of ice cubes. I couldn't help but laugh (which the SNL sketches didn't make me do because they came off so strained).
Also, I'd like to know what kind of ice trays she used...big clunky cubes that didn't splinter when taken out of the tray. Amazon may know.
Fun Fact: 32°F is not the point at which water freezes...it's the point at which ice melts.
Wishing you a Good Solstice.
The most pleasant sound I can think of is the groaning of the ice on the Charles in March, which reminds me of my Mother Niagara after the booms've been lifted from the Lake.
(Back to bed until then.)
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Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto.
The bottom picture of the country road (Hank Williams called it "out on the rural route") reminds me of my first 32 Decembers spent in central Illinois.
There's nothing about that winter scene I miss here in The 305.
Only 3 inches on Monona. I did plug a few real fat bluegeills out of that previously drilled hole though before nerves won out.
Garage, you missed the big news. The GAB has ..... secret routers!!!
So uninteresting right now. But thanks Original Mike.
Gaylord is a name you don't come across much anymore.
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