Still This and That from Winter Photographs!

Even though where YOU live,

you may have already raised a small farm and eaten produce...

up here in the North, we had snow very late,

spring weather came for a week and a half,

and then we got hit with major cold and snow AGAIN.

So during this confusing time we call Spring up in the U.P.

(where you can never put your longjohns away for more than a few weeks)

I still had winter to shoot with my lens.

Here are some random shots of the end of our winter (and the beginning of our spring!)

Lovely tree mushrooms:

Moss on a snowy tree:

Rapids in the melting river:

More 'shrooms:

Love those twisted roots:

In black and white too!

Didn't need snowshoes, but I did take my poles to help steady me when I sunk into random spots in the melting snow:

I love these little stalagtights hanging over the rushing river water:

Everywhere, texture and mushrooms!:

Nature accomodated the rock and the roots grew right over it into trees:

This woodpecker thought it was pretty convenient that the loggers brought the wood down to HIM:

The woods were very quiet that day, until I heard the tap-tap-tap of this little guy:

I hope you have lovely memories of winter and that your spring is more

progressed than ours.

Our snow melted quickly during a week and a half, and then on April 16th, we got another snow storm

that dumped us with a bunch of snow.

I am pre-publishing this blogpost, so hopefully by the time it posts,

our snow will once again be only a memory here too....

November's This and That Photographs...

Today, I thought I would post a few of the pictures that I have taken over the last few weeks that really didn't have a "theme" to them...they are just things that I found beautiful.

We have both male and female woodpeckers coming to our suet feeders all during the day.

This little girl's face was too cute to not take a picture of:

(I love how the suet is on top of her beak):

Here is the male companion. You can easily spot a male by the bright red spot on his head:

We have had several crystal clear, brisk days with sun on the lake:

Another one of the female at the suet feeder:






This was taken one early morning when the fog was still on the lake. The sun was burning it off, but it was a nice effect!:

The clear days bring wonderful reflections of the same exact shoreline.

I thought it might be neat for you to see the same exact location, only at a different time of day:

I know that within a few days we will be all white with the winter wonderland that arrives here with power....and stays here for months.

I know that this is just the "lull before the storm".

But I am so glad to have experienced it.

Nature is like that.

It never stays the same.

That's what makes it so interesting and beautiful.