Still shivering in minus temperatures here in the Moseltal. I took a few photos this morning at the village of Alf, about ten minutes up the road from here. The ice goes from one bank to the other now and all the barge traffic on the River has been stopped. There's a barge moored in Alf at the moment, wedged in by ice, so she's going nowhere until the thaw sets in.....
But not all the River is frozen, only a mile or so from here on the other side of the lock, there's not much ice at all, just some along the bank and some small pieces flowing down on the current.
Just think, there's a major European River under all that.
Cold days are O.K. for painting though - no distractions of walks for one thing (it's TOO cold). Got quite a bit done - most of my Torte is now painted in apart from her eyelashes, so now I'm working on the background, which is based on my favourite scarf. Remember that I'm painting this picture as my 'Avatar' so it has to have a bit of meself in it....
I wasn't sure at one point whether to go with the tassles on the scarf, so I draped the real one around the painting to see how it would look.
O.K. I think, so I'm putting them in.
The blue of the scarf and the blue of the background already painted in are the same shade - it just doesn't look like that in the photo, but I really like the colour combination of Torte and blue.
So, Soon,
Tschüss!
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