Winter waterfall photos to help you to think "COOL" during this early heatwave.The temperature reached a high of 87° yesterday in Hudson, OH and it felt just great; at least it felt great to me. After having lived in Chicago and the Cleveland area all my life, weather events like this are not that unusual. Temperatures in both cities can get unusually high and unusually low in any season of the year. It’s just always been that way. Yet it happens every year when we get a stretch of unusually hot weather early in the year that people start complaining already about how hot it is. Granted, I may complain a little in the middle of August when we get a long stretch of hot and humid weather that is just relentless. But this is May and we just emerged from a brutally cold winter. Are our weather attention spans so short that we have forgotten how relentless that cold was? Well, it got me thinking of some of the images that I took this winter when it was brutally cold outside. It was so cold that I probably should not have been outside taking pictures. (Thank goodness for remote shutter releases). I travelled out to a few of my favorite running routes to grab some photos. One of the routes included a section of the Buckeye Trail that takes us past Blue Hen Falls and Buttermilk Falls in the Cuyahoga Valley. During the summer months you’re restricted to the winding trails along the river to get from Blue Hen Falls to Buttermilk Falls. During this cold winter pretty much everything was frozen, so you could get between the falls by walking on the ice over the stream.
On my trek from Blue Hen Falls to Buttermilk Falls a passed by this tree that had been carved over the years with peoples names. I noticed someone had carved "Jack" into the base of the tree. Leslie and I always try to take a photo of Jack's name whenever we come across it on a sign. Unfortunately most of those signs seem to be the names of bars.
Because the weather was so cold, I noticed some very interesting ice crystal formations in areas where there were holes in the ice and the stream was running beneath it.
Water Flow Under the IceThe spring that feeds this stream keeps a steady flow of water under the ice, despite temperatures around zero.
I also headed over to another favorite running route near the Everett Covered Bridge in Peninsula, OH. We don’t actually run over the bridge on our route, but we run past it to get to Oak Hill Road. For anyone who has ever driven up, cycled up or run up this road, you know what kind of hill this is. It’s a beast! It makes for a great hill workout, although we have never done hill repeats on this hill. I save that for Initiation Hill on the North side of Peninsula. Anyway, I digress. Everett Covered Bridge is a really cool restored covered bridge to visit in just about any season, but I wanted to capture some images around sunset during winter. I didn’t quite get the sunset I was looking for, but with a bit of post-processing I created some pretty cool images. Needless to say, I didn’t have to worry about other people walking into my shot in that cold.
So for those who are already frustrated with our mini heat wave, perhaps looking at these photos will take you back to just a few months ago when the weather was so cold that the waterfalls and rivers froze over. Stay cool!
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