By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Deep.
You never know how deep it is until you wade in…
New York City, December 2010. More snow photos from that winter are here and here.
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Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.Johna Till Johnson
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.Recent Comments
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Wind Against Current 
It will be here before we know it!
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Unfortunately so!
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I love the way the little dogs float on top of the snow while the poor owner slogs on. I remember that snow!
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Yes, it’s as if they had snowshoes… :-)
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what a wonderful array of photos…My Aunt used to live in Syracuse, NY and would send us photos here in Louisville…unbelievable!
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Snowstorms aren’t as frequent as they used to be in NYC, but every now and then a good one still comes along… :-)
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Great answer!
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Thanks!!
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Fantastic photo, just perfect for the theme. The dogs look rather baffled!
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They’ll get used to it… :-)
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that is some deep snow!
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Could be a lot worse… you hear stories (and see photos) from a hundred years ago, when the snowdrifts in some places were ten or twenty feet high…
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That dog walker looks like he is in a bit of trouble!
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Just a momentary scare… That day was not so bad, I seem to recall, provided you stuck to the well-traveled routes and didn’t give in to the temptation to sample the virgin snow ;-)
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:)
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Ouch, snow… :)
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Coming soon in NYC! :-)
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coming soon in Chicago, and it’s always only fun for a few days. Not good for island guys like me.
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I am soooo looking forward to the snow and frost in Czech Republic already :)
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As I am in NYC! :-) (Within limits.)
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