Hint of Warmth

Another in my much delayed mini series (sometimes life just gets in the way of the creative process you know?) from this winter. An early morning shot, the sun was just rising, getting ready to once again warm our part of the earth and ultimately melt this wonderful beauty. I was glad I could see it while it was here.

Long in the Tooth

This winter photo (the next in my current mini series of them) was hanging and growing in front of our kitchen window for a while. The title comes from the idea of age and that in some animals the teeth grow longer with age, which was certainly the case here. It ultimately got much bigger than this, but have to say it is gone now, due to youthful enthusiasm of taking down such things and young ones desires to eat them. It's a shame it is bad for the roof, as it is cool to look at. A testimony to our recent cold snap for sure.

I have got to Stop!

When traveling from a few hours away down the Pa Turnpike (this is a limited access toll highway for our international friends..,think Autobahn, but slower) a few weeks ago at day break on a Sunday morning, there was a fresh overnight snow and the closer I got to home, the more beautiful the roadside was blanketed in white. The opportunities to stop were very limited by the mostly narrow shoulder and high speed traffic and as I passed view after view I was growing anxious about missing these wonderful shots. Shortly, after crossing a long bridge, there was a small offshoot service road and I quickly pulled in. Not wanting to get ticketed at an unauthorized stop, I quickly jumped out of the car with my loafers on (my destination was church) into the deep snow on the edge of the pavement to make a few quick shots. In spite of the traffic whizzing close by, looking down into the quiet woods for this fresh image was soothing and invigorating at the same time. The downside was that for the rest of the way, I had to keep the heater on full tilt to dry my shoes and socks, but it was worth it!

MInd Trekker

After another mini hiatus (inspiration is unpredictable type of thing), my wife said "why don't you get some of those winter photos you just took onto the blog", so here is a start. This is the first of a few I had taken a couple of weeks ago after a nice semi-deep east coast snow. It has been quite cold here in our part of Pa for a few weeks now and no let up is in view, so I perceive there will be more opportunities awaiting me. When I first ventured out into the 'deep' that day, this mini 'dune' really caught my eye and as I squatted into the snow to find a perspective, the lower I was the more it looked like one of those landscapes of the great dunes of the Sahara. Even though only a few inches high, I imagined in my mind trekking on this mini 'knifes edge' as the wind was re sculpting it like it would sand.