Set 02 of My Favorite Ice Pictures
Bob Jensen at Trinity University 

From our cottage, three White Mountain ranges are visible to the east from our living room:
The Kinsman Range (about 10 miles east and southeast)
The Twin Range (about 20 miles slightly northeast)
The Presidential Range (about 30 miles northeast)
There are other ranges in the White Mountains ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Mountains_%28New_Hampshire%29
Vermont's Green Mountains are to our west
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountains

 

The Summer of 2011 heat and drought is exceptional in various parts of the world
Up in these mountains the summer has not been exceptionally hot or dry
But for readers who are baking in the heat and humidity
I provide you with pictures of ice --- our Jack Frost Paintings

This is a wild cherry tree on the south side of our cottage

This is the lamp post on our back deck and an old maple tree by our studio

I think this is a big cedar waxwing in the wild cranberry bush in front of my desk

This is the same cranberry bush with ice instead of show

 

Before we added more rim insulation we used to get some big icicles around our cottage
Below is ice over the dining room bay window on the north side of the cottage

Below are pictures of the icicles in front of the big windows of our living room

 

The icicles on the outside of the window
The star lights are on the inside (this picture was taken before the Christmas season)


 

In the back of our cottage a circle driveway surrounds a cluster of three birch trees
We lost one of the birch trees to an ice storm


We can see what is called Ore Hill to our Southeast from my desk
This is Ore Hill in the foliage season

Ore Hill has an abandoned iron mine (not visible in the picture)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2007/tidbits070924.htm

This is Ore Hill in the winter season

In the heart of winter the sun sets around 4:00 p.m. in the south, southwest

I did not take the pictures below, but they are beautiful pictures intended to cool you off

 

 

Jack Frost Paintings

Set 1 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/JackFrostPaint/Set01/JackFrost01.htm    

Set 2 ---  http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/JackFrostPaint/Set02/JackFrostSet02.htm 

Also see http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2008/tidbits080219.htm

Also see http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2009/tidbits090504.htm

Blogs of White Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02242409292439585691

Especially note the archive of John Compton's blogs at the bottom of the page at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/

Question
Are their trails in our White Mountains of New Hampshire that have ice in summer as well as winter?
See "The Ice Gulch, Would I do it Again" by John Compton, August 5, 2011 ---
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/2011_08_05_archive.html

Okay, you might ask, is there really ice in the Ice Gulch, even in August? Yes, there is! The next photo shows one small patch of ice. There were many larger patches, but they were at the bottom of some of those deep gaps that I mentioned above. I took some photos, but none of them really turned out, even with using a flash to illuminate these dark, dank, deep spots.

 White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/

 

More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

On May 14, 2006 I retired from Trinity University after a long and wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm

Bob Jensen's Blogs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations   

Our address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's Green Mountains to the West

 

 

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