Fire and Ice
February 3rd 2010 01:42
Ice is the natural state of things, cold, still and lifeless. Fire on the other hand breathes life into our world, but can be powerfully destructive if uncontrolled. This article on boston.com has many pictures dealing with both. Below is a sample.
Members of the public enjoy a late afternoon walk on the frozen Lake of Menteith, on January 4, 2010 in Scotland
Small fires burn on the hillsides above the in the southern German town of Pottenstein on January 6, 2010, part of an annual festival traditionally held to ward off evil spirits from the past year.
Hundreds of people holding lit flares aloft gather to submit a petition outside the residence of Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson in Reykjavik January 2, 2010. Iceland's president said on Thursday December 31, 2009 that he would delay signing an amended bill to repay more than $5 billion lost by savers in Britain and the Netherlands when the island's banks collapsed.
Torchbearer and Hall of Fame hockey great Gordie Howe carries the Olympic flame in LaSalle, Ontario, on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009, during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics torch relay.
A member of the fire brigade removes icicles from a building to prevent them from falling on people in the eastern German city of Leipzig on January 13, 2010.
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