Posts Tagged ‘snow’
Leaf in morning light
I was on my way out of the woods when I saw this beech leaf backlit, with light shining through and under the leaf:
The sight of the warm glow under the leaf stayed in my imagination the rest of the morning. It only lasted a moment – the sun rises, the angle of the light [...]
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Winter stream
The last few days I’ve been at Kiln Brook, looking for snaky flows of water through the rocks. Every day is different – the light is different, the snow melted gradually and ice formed in the flows, then melted completely. Now it’s cold again – 20 F, headed for 5 F overnight). More ice tomorrow!
The [...]
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Three leaves
Spring is just a promise, still. We had nine inches of snow a few days back, and more on the way. Leaves on snow are a commonplace subject, but this group of three in different states was too tempting to pass up:
Another image from the beech forest. This is from December, when there were still [...]
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Enchanted forest
This is a favorite woods of mine – there’s a lot of American beech mixed in with pine and oak. Beech trees, especially the younger ones, are “reluctantly deciduous.” They don’t let last season’s leaves fall. In winter that means beeches are bright against the dark trunks and bare branches of the neighboring trees. One [...]
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Winter
The last couple of weeks have dumped a couple of feet of snow in my area. I’ve been out trudging around in the woods, checking out frozen streams, glorying in in it all except my frozen feet. Leaves in the snow are an old standby winter macro subject; here’s a somewhat different angle on the [...]
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