Icy Fingers of Winter

 

 

 

 

 

A Quick Flash of Color

 

Merry Christmas, My Friends!

 

May God bless and keep you this Christmas and throughout the year!

Early Shadows

 

Just Swimming In Texture

 

The Mountains Overhead

 

Drama From The Skies

 

Al Fresco Lunch

 

Chase The Squirrel!

 

Tuxedo Required

 

Don't Fence Me In

 

This is a hedge apple trunk (maclura pomifera), also called Osage orange, once a stout and strong natural fence around the edge of farm fields throughout the Midwest.  In the fall after harvest, cattle were turned out in the fields to clean up what ears of corn escaped the harvester.  When pruned, the hedge apple sprouted abundant shoots from its base; as these shoots grew, they became interwoven and formed a dense, thorny barrier.

Hedge apple was replaced by the invention of barbed wire, and today fences are being taken out everywhere, as farms no longer have cattle or hogs.  Hedge is so tough that it takes a bulldozer to remove it.

Morning Catch

 

Afternoon Calm

 

Evening Window

 

Feeling Confrontational

 

In The Moonlight

 

That Special Evening

 

Concentrating On Sleep

 

Spectacular Fall

 

Morning Sun And Coffee

 

The best part of waking up - is being by the water.

Testing For Ripeness

 

Farm Dressed All In White

 

Just A Fall Day In Paradise

 

Path To The Lake

 

 

 

 

Foggy Fall Flavor

 

Second Snow, And It's Only October

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't Look Now

 

Skywalker

 

Progressing Toward Gold

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonded Pair

 

Smile For The Birdie

 

Look And See

 

Clouds are just water vapor, the most ordinary thing in the world.  But seen in the right light, they can be something more.  Much more.  Here's to seeing rather than just looking.

Layers Of Fall

 

Different Kinds of Power

 

Hints of Warm Color

 

Fantastic Frank

 It's way past time for a few pictures, in no particular order, of Fantastic Frank.  I never thought I'd fall in love with a serious, poker-faced redhead, but he makes every day better.  Some of you know what I mean.