Another thaw

The whole of January turned out to be abnormally warm. At first, I compared it to 2020, but later this warming broke all records! It got to the point where the Vologda River began to open up from the ice.

But I'll tell everyone about it later. And I'll start from the very beginning of the another thaw.

The first strong thaw with rains was at the end of December, but then even a little frost was given.

The second major thaw was in mid-January, when widespread ice broke out...which I never really captured.

This thaw is the third in a row and it is the strongest.

Snow and ice began to actively melt due to constant positive temperatures.

And the rain that fell from time to time contributed to the active melting of the already meager snow and ice cover.

There are puddles around, and there's still ice in places.

It's like the middle of April outside, when there's almost no snow.

Everything is soaked with moisture.

There is much more snow in the more northern and eastern regions of the region, but it is also warm there.

And this is the first time I've seen such a winter.

Even the chickadees sing like in spring.

After that, I don't want snow, I want a real spring!

I'm happy about this thaw and I'm waiting for everything to melt completely.

This will be another reason to photograph everything around.

I don't know if winter will take its toll, whether spring will win back the legal right to snowstorms and snowfalls.

But I will also be happy if snowdrifts are one and a half meters high in March.

I like even ordinary seasonal natural phenomena, let alone anomalies.

Everyone says it's global warming.

But I know that it's just a cycle in nature.

And I always have confirmation of this in the form of photographs of past winters with one-and-a-half-meter snowdrifts, or with frosts below minus forty.

And next winter will definitely be different, most likely even the opposite of this one.