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Titania (gone for lunch) Started conversation Jul 10, 2004
The coastal line is hidden beneath a heavy layer of snow,
obliterating all landmarks into a smooth nothingness.
Only the sharpest of cliff formations, painted white by the snow, break the evenness, casting light blue shadows.
The same wind that has set the snow adrift in never ending waves
has also swept the ocean floor clear, allowing you to see the dull dark blueness of solid ice.
The sky is clear and intensely deep blue, paling in the distance where it meets the haze of sun reflected upon snow,
making your eyes hurt as you strain to see the horizon.
Where is this then?
Is it the North Pole?
Is it the Antarctic?
No.
It is high up in the air over the North Sea, above the clouds, the view as seen from an aircraft on its way to London.
But for a moment, it could have been an arctic landscape.
Could it not?
Was it not?
And while you ponder, an icebear wanders by, unnoticed, unreal - because icebears can't fly...
And the landscape regains its stillness.
The icebear
Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jul 10, 2004
yep! nice one!
The icebear
Santragenius V Posted Jul 10, 2004
You do write well, Ti 
(busy packing for holidays - so no room for more comment than that...)
The icebear
taliesin Posted Jul 10, 2004
Very well done and visually evocative 
Initially I misread the title as, 'the icebar'.. and rushed over to grab a cold one 
The icebear
Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) Posted Jul 12, 2004
Ti, thanks for sparking memories from a time gone by. When I was much younger, the shapes in the clouds always resolved themselves into figures of animals or people or cherubs or things from tales of fantasy. Then, in the early 1990's, I began to realize that I no longer visualized such things. Despite the sheer beauty of such aerial landscapes when I traveled by plane [and I ~do~ always try to vie for the window seat], it became painfully obvious that I wasn't "seeing" the people in the clouds as I used to. Now, I depend on my youngest daughter to name the shapes she sees in the billows and whorls of the scattered clouds scudding across a bright blue sky. 
waitingpatientlyB4iregainmysight
The icebear
Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) Posted Jul 12, 2004
Ti: Do remember to check the "Greetings B4..." thread. 
B4itbecomesyesterdaysnews
The icebear
Santragenius V Posted Jul 18, 2004
Incidentally, during the last week's vacation, our Norwegian friend told this story about two of his friends who - quite a number of yeasr ago - went kayaking/rowing/something like that up north (and in Norway, that means North... 
)
They saw something coming slowly towards them in the water and decided to check it out - until they realised it was an icebear 
Suffice it to say that they turned around and beat their own record in getting to shore....
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- 1: Titania (gone for lunch) (Jul 10, 2004)
- 2: Hypatia (Jul 10, 2004)
- 3: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Jul 10, 2004)
- 4: Santragenius V (Jul 10, 2004)
- 5: taliesin (Jul 10, 2004)
- 6: Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) (Jul 12, 2004)
- 7: Blue-Eyed BiPedal BookWorm from Betelgeuse (aka B4[insertpunhere]) (Jul 12, 2004)
- 8: Santragenius V (Jul 18, 2004)
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