Our intense cold spell has gotten more intense. Yesterday and today are the coldest days so far. It was 9 F when I went out to feed the birds at 10:30 am, though sunny and not windy. Yesterday I went to Kingsville with Deb, in need of more bird seed. We have been going through a lot of the stuff of late, including for several ducks who stop by after sunset each night. I went to Lakeside Park to read. It was so warm in the car just from sunlight that I had to open windows. I went for a ten minute stroll and took some photos, too. You lucky readers will get to see them in a moment. We went out a second time last night for groceries. We have been shopping the local stores at 8 pm lately, along with only three or four other customers. It's a great time to go pick up food.
Lake Erie from the bluff overlooking Lakeside Park, Kingsville. There is still open water a ways out there, by the shoreline areas are solidly frozen. There is still some shipping going on, but always accompanied now by a coast guard ice breaker. Critter footprints on Lake Erie.
More footprints in the snow.
A small stream (what New Mexicans would call a river) winds through the park before emptying into Lake Erie.
Open water is becoming scarce.
A very chilly babbling brook. Lakeside Park, Kingsville.
In movie news, there are two films to report. Peter Weir's Year Of Living Dangerously (1982) doesn't seem to have much of a punch anymore. The world seems to be coming under right wing dictatorship more and more, and the leaders seem to get more and more cruel. Taking place in the mid 1960s in Java, Mel Gibson is helped to get a big story by Billy, brilliantly played by Linda Hunt (who won an Oscar for her role). Gibson falls in love with (a seemingly anorexic) Sigourney Weaver, and the plot thickens. It is a good movie, and it does try to highlight the problem of starvation in a country run by a dictator. However, it just seems to be lacking something essential. It's aim is good, the target is worthwhile, so maybe it's lacking something in plot and execution. Not having read the novel perhaps doesn't help my judgement.
Showing on Criterion until Jan. 31st.
We also watched a creaky 1960s b & w Sherlock Holmes film starring Christopher Lee. Filmed in Berlin and dubbed, it's still a pretty good entry, and Lee isn't bad as Holmes. Moriarty steals an Egyptian necklace said to once have belonged to Cleopatra, and Holmes must put a stop to this nonsense. Sherlock Holmes and The Deadly Necklace was directed by Terrance Fisher, of Hammer fame. From 1962, it's worth catching if you can. We found it on the Roku TV channel, which now has about 7 billion things on it I would love to watch. With a decent Watson, a good Moriarty, and some atmospheric settings, it was worth seeing.
We found this 1962 feature on the Roku TV channel.
Mapman Mike
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