Winter's Progression #2
December 24, 2017
It was Christmas Eve and
we finally had a real snow, albeit a thin layer.
But, it only took that
gentle, quiet settling of snow over the landscape to etch out dark
trees against the white, and to make white trunks of fallen trees
stand out in bold white and brown-gray stripes.
Everything was a
black-and-white photo, and parts of the photo seemed like the
negative film.
Snow stuck to shelf fungi on a tree ...
... and to course bark on another.
Front slope and bottom land, looking east/southeast
The Creek, downstream
Bits of bark on top of the fallen Cottonwood Trunk - or little snow-covered creatures?
Each flake of snow
sparkled in the late morning sun.
Wearing the right footwear this time
Cottonwood Pond was a
study in contrasts, too.
Pond's edge
Autumn leaves beneath the frozen pond surface
"little pond" the Trunk the Root Ball Top
Looking up the Cottonwood Trunk to where the top is lodged in the Two-Trunk Red Oak
Old oyster mushrooms on the Cottonwood Trunk
How far down would the Crawdad be in its tunnel?
Was anything lurking in
that water or in the mud beneath? I hoped to find out in the new year
ahead.
The "Elve's Walking Stick" on Christmas Eve
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