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gpmatthews
Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 1027 Location: Horsham, W. Sussex, UK
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: Winter |
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Winter has come to the local mill pond, with ice, mistiness and freezing winds. Even so, I enjoyed the walk this afternoon:
 _________________ Graham
Though we lean upon the same balustrade, the colours of the mountain are different. |
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Ken Ramos

Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 7058 Location: lat=35.4005&lon=-81.9841
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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These are the kind of wintry things I remember from long ago. Things have pretty much changed now, being as I live within an isolated thermal boundry. One day its is hot the next its cold, rain then snow. One of the first things to come to mind though when I viewed your photograph, was the fact that under that ice, there are probably tons of protists, amoebae especially. I do not know about there in the UK but places like that here usually produce a bumper crop of organisms during the winter. I think the dissolved oxygen levels have something to do with it but I cannot be sure, protist seem not to need much in the way of oxygen from what I have read.
Anyway quite a nice photograph there Graham, I enjoy winter walks also, despite the cold temperatures. Always take a thermos of hot coffee or tea with you.  |
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