ice age, fjord, tiptop, snowy owl

This simply stunning image of a majestic snowy owl in full flight wasn't taken by a professional - but by a traffic camera.

Montreal traffic camera captures stunning images of snowy owl in flight

Owl, which was likely looking for a place to perch, has become viral…

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Valenti's Sexuality Was Topic For FBI
When Beltway insider Jack Valenti died two years ago at age 85, he was playing the role of intermediary between Washington and Hollywood as the theatrical, snowy-haired president of the Motion Picture Association of America.
(By Joe Stephens, The Washington Post)

For Republicans, the Ice Age Cometh

By Mike Murphy

Numbers don't lie. Unless Republicans overhaul their message, the losses will continue

Cruise Issue

On Norway’s Coast, a Voyage to the Top of the Continent

By PAUL SCHNEIDER
A winter cruise to the tiptop of Europe on the Arctic Sea sails past snowy fjords, towering mountains, northern lights and tiny fishing villages.

The coastline of eastern Greenland, with its many fjords. At the bottom is the longest fjord in the world, Scoresby Sund.

fiord/fjord

Geologically, a fjord or fiord (pronounced /fjɔːd/ or pronounced /fiːɔːd/) is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.


━━ n. （ノルウェーなどの）峡江, フィヨルド.
tiptop
n.

1. The highest point; the summit.
2. The highest degree of quality or excellence.

adj.
Excellent; first-rate: an athlete in tiptop condition.
adv.
Very well; excellently.

snow (WEATHER) Show phonetics
noun
1 [U] the small soft white bits of ice which sometimes fall from the sky when it is cold, or the white layer on the ground and other surfaces which it forms:
Outside the snow began to fall.
Let's go and play in the snow!
A blanket of snow lay on the ground.
Her hair was jet-black, her lips ruby-red and her skin as white as snow.

2 [C] a single fall of snow:
We haven't had many heavy snows this winter.

snow Show phonetics
verb [I]
If it snows, snow falls from the sky:
It's snowing.
It's starting to snow.
It had snowed overnight and a thick white layer covered the ground.

snowy Show phonetics
adjective
full of or like snow:
We've had a very snowy winter this year.
I remember him as an old man with a snowy-white (= pure white) beard.
ice age,
n.

1. A cold period marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth.
2. Ice Age The most recent glacial period, which occurred during the Pleistocene Epoch.