Maybe I’ve lived in Sweden for too long —
But that first ice on the lake always gets a shout of joy from me!
It’s fun to explore
And find icy eyelashes on leaves
And diamond-studded benches.
Later on that afternoon,
I found the heart of winter
In the purple of the setting sun.
For more warming stories, please visit: Our World.
WOW, love the first shot. I had the similar experience when I visited shore last weekend. Lake was all icy, not like this but quite similar.
LikeLike
Stunning shots as always, and thats where the heart of Winter is hiding….we are still waiting for our ice and snow!! Like you I love the transformation, but only because its for just a few months 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s a good morning for me when I get to look at such beautiful photos! 🙂 Your post awakes my heart.
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a beautiful photos, with the winter heart and the dog it is complete.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Absolutely stunning once again! ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
Each season brings so much beauty into nature and you have captured the loveliness of winter. May I wish you a wonderful and creative New Year!
LikeLike
Aw, the heart of winter – I love it!
LikeLike
Beautiful photos, But……BRRRRRRR
LikeLike
Best wishes in 2015 !!
Very beautiful this ice and water ice on the lake is very beautiful in this light winter
beautiful week
LikeLike
Hello Lady Fi!
Stunning winter. Ice-covered lake.
Ice crystals are like diamonds.
This sweet dog is Ruby?
Please hold it for me.
Beautiful photos!!!!!!
Greetings from Polish.
Lucia
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, the dog is our Ruby.
Lady Fi wrote: > >
LikeLike
These are all such amazing shots. Love the icicles on the leaves! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
YOUR DOG IS MAKING A HEART FOR YOU.
LikeLike
Fanstastic and amazing sight!
LikeLike
I like ice in all it’s forms – crystals, sheets, frostings-you illustrate them beautifully!
LikeLike
Oh, I must say, THANK YOU, thank you for being one of my top 5 commenters on http://www.plainandfancygirl.com this past year. I so appreciate it!
LikeLike
If I did not have ‘to head out the door’ I would gaze upon these stunning photos ….many times more!
So very beautiful … thank you 🙂
LikeLike
beautiful winter sky(ies)…
LikeLike
Beautiful, wintery captures for the day, Fiona!! And, of course, I always love to see pics of Ruby! She makes for wonderful smiles to start this gray old day here in Oregon!! Hope your new year is off to a great start!!
LikeLike
Lovely tones in these photos, winter pastels.
LikeLike
thanks for sharing your joys. made me smile. 🙂
LikeLike
Winter holds a lot of incredible beauty! Exquisitely so.
LikeLike
Wonderful, exquisite, magical!
LikeLike
Pretty images, love the shots of Ruby! And the last sunset and purple sky is just beautiful. Have a happy day and week ahead!
LikeLike
Oh that dog makes me melt!!!
LikeLike
Oh I feel so envious of that winter weather! I long to visit Scandinavia some day – weather like that makes me feel absolutely alive. Lovely shots 🙂
LikeLike
Nor is it a cold heart as one would expect. It is full of life and exuberance. Perhaps that is why Fins have their saunas only to dive in a ice cold lake. The warmth may mend the achy muscles and joints but it’s the icy jolt that assures one is alive and well. My brother married a Canadian Fin, so I have put this test once, had to break ice at the end of old dock (one that looked very much like yours which you photograph). And yes, I only did it once. Never again.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ah yes – I’ve only done the sauna roll in snow thing twice!
Lady Fi wrote: > >
LikeLike
I’d have to be pie-eyed to do it second time. Still, the devil in me would highly recommend it to anyone considering trying it.
LikeLike
A heart that is beautifully set off by a gorgeous dog!
LikeLike
I love seeing your western views.. ours faces east. Beautiful Ruby adorns that sunset so nicely.
LikeLike
What stunning photographs! I loved visiting today.
LikeLike
A lovely serie!
LikeLike
You have a lovely view in all seasons!
LikeLike
Your photos are gorgeous, but that ice makes me shiver!
LikeLike
how wonderful! x
LikeLike
Wonderful photos from a beautiful day:-)
LikeLike
I can feel the cold! Really, such superlative images.
LikeLike
I love how you capture the beauty of Winter. Winter is my favorite season. I love to cross country ski. The animals in the woods seem a little less afraid of humans on cross country skies. 😉 I have skied close to so many animals in the woods.
Thank you for sharing the beauty of Winter!
LikeLike
Awesome post! Those are my kind of “diamonds” and “eyelashes” 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Chilly perfection. Thank you.
LikeLike
This is so beautiful. To beautiful for words. And I love the details.
LikeLike
Beautiful series and tones, stunning winter photos
LikeLike
Wonderful winter atmosphere with frozen lake, great light, nice pictures. Happy 2015 !!
LikeLike
I was young when I left Sweden, but I always appreciated the beauty of her nature. It is just wonderful for me to come here and enjoy it now.
LikeLike
Exquisite captures, as always, Fi. Glorious colours. I so enjoy your positive approach to life and obvious appreciation of your surroundings – wherever that may be. Thank you for sharing the beauty and may 2015 be a healthy, happy and “over-flowing with joy” kind of year for you and yours. (Thank you too for co-hosting!)
LikeLike
‘Joy To Winter’ by Fiona. Lovely.
LikeLike
Oh how i love your photos!!
LikeLike
You live and share great beauty. Love the dog & heart on ice
Warm ALOHA from Honolulu
ComfortSpiral
❤
LikeLike
You live in such a beautiful place.
I can see why it would bring a shout of joy! 🙂
LikeLike
Happy New year. The icy eyelashes on leaves, The heart of winter. I feel you are a creative poet. Thanks for sharing.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You capture the magic of winter so well.
LikeLike
Hi Fiona, I’ve just had a lovely time catching up with missed posts, always such a pleasure to see your amazing images. Was so sorry to hear that your Dad had been unwell, hopefully he is on the mend now. Ruby’s little babies are a delight as is Ruby herself, how lucky you were to have her after Oscar passed. I’m so sorry it’s belated but I do wish you all the very best for the new year, looking forward to many beautiful wintry images to cool down my extremely hot summer 🙂
LikeLike
Beautiful captures as always!!
LikeLike
Lovely images and words.
LikeLike
Beautiful! I always look forward to the first snow, which arrives in September or October.
LikeLike
oh so beautiful! i was hoping for snow when we went to west virginia but we didn’t get any this year. hopefully next christmas
LikeLike
I too love the blues and pinks of winter. Your images are stunningly beautiful.
LikeLike
Oh the beauty of winter…
LikeLike
“But that first ice on the lake always gets a shout of joy from me!”
And I feel the same way, Fiona! I know I’m not in the majority when I say this, but I LOVE winter! I think I must have been a penguin in one of my past lives because I love being cold and I love snow.
And I am so envious because we haven’t had not one bit of snow so far this winter. But I hear we may be getting some tomorrow. Yahoo!
STUNNING photographs! The one of the icy eyelashes on the leaves is breathtaking. And I love the heart in snow in the last one.
Ruby is sooooooooo cute!
X
LikeLike
I love the delicate effects that a hoarfrost creates. So lovely!
LikeLike
I love the colour changes as blue turns to purple the world seems so alive. 🙂
LikeLike
Beautiful photos of the ice and ice patterns on the leaves. It looks lovely but I am glad I don’t have to live in it!!
LikeLike
Lovely winter captures! How sweet of Ruby to share the snow heart with your readers. ♥
Lindy
LikeLike
You’re never too old (or been in a place too long) to shout for joy at beautiful things 🙂
never lose the wonder…
LikeLike
Beautiful winter photos.
I love the frost on the plants.
The sunset has stolen my heart.
Best regards, Irma
LikeLike
I am always amazed by your pictures. The view is splendid
LikeLike
génial ces bleus violet
LikeLike
At least you have beautiful pictures to show while I am sitting in the rain !
LikeLike
Beautiful!
LikeLike
Your ice is beautiful – maybe you have lived in Sweden just the right amount of time.
LikeLike
and you made a heart on the ice!!! I love stuff like that!! pretty images, the sunset was a favorite!!!!
LikeLike
We found the heart on the ice – someone else had already made it for us!
Lady Fi wrote: > >
LikeLike
A fine series with such good pictures illustrating the various elements of winter. The purpose sky is gorgeous.
LikeLike
awww…how lovely is that!
LikeLike
awww…how lovely is that!
LikeLike
Oh I love your doggie best of course but delightful wintry photos!
Happy New Year,
artmusedog and carol
LikeLike
I have a northern heart, as well. 🙂 I love your images, they hit close to home.
LikeLike
Gorgeous winter scenes of ice!
LikeLike
The winter must give you some fabulous sun sets.
LikeLike
Beautiful scenery – I would get excited too! I love the eyelashes on the leaf!
LikeLike
Love the close ups. Snow and ice is much underrated. It may be cold, but makes for gorgeous landscapes and macros shots.
LikeLike
winters heart in whites and rich blues….
ha, we used to go out on the ice back home…
once it solidified good…
LikeLike
I don’t like cold but you’ve got me wanting to be there.
LikeLike
Beautiful, but makes me cold. 🙂 Love the last shot!
LikeLike
Beautiful!
LikeLike
Traveling to Sweden would be such a great experience. In British Columbia we get lots of ice on cold nights, but very little snow where we live.
LikeLike
so beautiful. We don’t have snow here in winter. I really need to go to a snow place to experience such beauty. Thank you. Wishing you all the best for 2015. and thank you for stopping by my blog.
LikeLike
I’m missing the ice here this year. We have had very little. Mind you we never get as much as you 🙂
LikeLike
Such beautiful fotos! I like all the blue colors in the first one, and the light! A happy New Year to you!
LikeLike
Indeed gorgeous! I love how vigilant your dog looks there. Keeping watch.
LikeLike
it snows here, it gets cold here but its never a beautiful as it is there .. thank you for sharing the beauty
LikeLike
Gorgeous views & aspects like in a fairy stories!! Have a great day!
LikeLike
Did Ruby draw that heart ! How clever – best to you, thanks for Our World Tuesday !
LikeLike
Gorgeous photos as usual and I love the heart, Ruby and the kids!
LikeLike
Gorgeous winter shots! Ice art is wonderful.
LikeLike
Beautiful “frozen shots”! 🙂
LikeLike
Nice, all I got was a a wet and windy Dartmoor. 🙂
Jim
LikeLike
Love the eyelashes and bejeweled bench. 🙂 Magical shot of the sunset.
LikeLike
Breathtaking! These are the sheer beauties of winter. Wish you and your family the best for 2015.
Yoko
LikeLike
Pure Gorgeousness. ❤
LikeLike
Excellent series of pics!
Happy new year to you!
LikeLike
Excelled compositions with winter ice and snow… heart-warming 🙂
I always wonder look at people walk on frozen lakes.
LikeLike
Beautifully all that ice! The second picture is very attractive and it looks like the leaves sugared by the ice crystal. On the last picture, the air is so beautifully colored. Here I can really enjoy:-)
LikeLike
I HEART Ruby! And all your pictures.
LikeLike
Dearest Lady-fi; Wow, looks cold but made me feel to see with my own eyes and the beautiful shots reminded me of the little icicles♡♡♡
Thank you very much for the ”winter heart”♪
Sending Lots of Love and Hugs from Japan to my Dear friend, xoxo Miyako*
LikeLike
Winter’s charm well framed
LikeLike
Love that last shot of Ruby:)
LikeLike
icy eyelashes on leaves extra!
LikeLike