Decay Delay

Such a difference, moving north after living for so many years in southern Ohio. Yes, obviously the winters will be more consistently cold here. That's not to say that on any given day in, say, January or February it might not be as cold or even colder in Cincinnati than it is in the Atlantic Maritimes. But the next day it could be 60, 70 or even 80 degrees Fahrenheit and most folks would not even bat an eyelash at such a transition. Winters are fickle that way in the Greater Midwest.
My experience so far in Nova Scotia has been that temperatures are much more consistent from day to day and generally below freezing. Sure, we had a few warmer days here and there at 8 or 9ºC (yes, i have shifted to Celsius here because, you know, i'm Canadian now 😉). For my American friends that's a whopping 46-48ºF, outright balmy for mid-winters up here. But it only lasted a day, or perhaps two at best each time, and then we drop back to around zero (32ºF) or below. One of the side effects of steady winter temperatures is that things just don't decay around here like i have grown to expected after 20 winters in Cincy. And so my ever-so-slowly decomposing apples out back have become a staple photographic subject of late. For some reason i find them both fascinating and beautiful in their half preserved state of limbo. So here are are few more images from my backyard refrigerator, artifacts of the great decay delay.

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