That's it The River is Frozen

This year the weather is incredibly warm, in fact today it is -7C (19F) when last year at this time of years the temperature had been steady at -30C (-22F) for days. But finally the river forze over. I really would like to walk across this year but it will have to get a lot colder than this for a while before I can do it.

Anyway here is the way it went:

First rafts of slush  floated along

The edge of the river started to freeze in slowly

As it was getting colder the water between the rafts of slush started to get thin layer of ice

but as soon as a warmish day (still below freezing) came the thin layers of ice disappear

Then there was a few cool days and the open water "smoked" all while the ice at the edge of the river kept on slowly moving inward

And finally one morning after a couple of nights of just below -20C (-4F) the river was frozen

  though there are still some open spots