Respect

I had a few minutes between a photography seminar this week to get outside for some fresh air. Walking down by the falls, the thaw is just beginning, and I was captivated by the mixture of two worlds colliding. In the cold blue ice is a time, frozen still, almost foreign in the shapes and curves. A very quiet beauty.
But there in the slow moving water, you can see Spring striving to take the lead. Somehow, after a long cold winter, the water and the sunlight feels alive to me. There's hope and even the ducks feel it.
They flew in and were doing their best to take advantage of the new break in the ice, so out of sheer respect for their efforts, so that all that paddling wasn't in vain, these images are for you. :)