The good news is that classes were cancelled today. The bad news is that so was train service in and out of South Wales. To console myself at the unexpected postponement of my York trip, I bought myself a chocolate cake at Lidl to share with Anna and company over movie night.
I took a walk in the park this afternoon (along with half the population of Cardiff, the half that was not in line at Lidl). I stood on the suspension bridge above the Blackweir and watched skins of ice drift downstream and crumple into surreal folds around the branches of a fallen sapling in the shallows. The current sucked the edge of one sheet gently under itself. That entire skin rolled itself up like a rug. If you hadn’t known it was ice, you would have sworn it was gauze.
Here’s Aberdare in the snow:
Here’s the Blackweir over the River Taff. The suspension footbridge was built by Cardiff University engineering students:
And here, at full resolution so you can see it, is the fallen tree with diaphanous ice skins folding around it.
