
Icy © 2007
Ice shrouded seed heads
are warming in the gray fog.
Glistening drip-drop.
Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin

Icy © 2007
Ice shrouded seed heads
are warming in the gray fog.
Glistening drip-drop.
Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin

Winter Path © 2007
Care to take a walk? Maybe to the wild side?
Winter day in Owen Conservation Park in Madison, Wisconsin.

Icicles © 2007
Whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles
Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Icicles at -7˚F. They are not dripping. They’re not even anticipating dripping. They’re very, very cold. Another winter scene from Owen Conservation Park in frigid Madison, Wisconsin
World of illusion
Black and white, and white, and white.
Illumination
Snowfall in Madison, WI as of December 6th, 2007: 6 inches of snow followed by a one inch ice layer followed by another 6 inch snowfall. This makes for interesting walking. Either you sink into 6 inches of snow and slide on the ice, or you sink into 6 inches of snow, crack through the ice and lurch forward as you drop another 6 inches. This photograph was taken only 5 steps from my back porch. Maybe you can understand why I chose to go no further than 5 feet for a photo. On the positive side, I only fell once.
Ah, winter. I celebrate your return.
“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple;
which has no superfluous parts;
which exactly answers its end;
which stands related to all things;
which is the mean of many extremes.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
“I hate quotations.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American satirist (as noted above)
The first real fall of snow (only 3 inches) fell Sunday, December 2nd, though tricky Mother Nature capped her display of winter glory with an inch of glassy ice.
When I went to shoot photos yesterday morning, I only went about 10 feet from the start of the path, and fell twice going that far. Therefore today’s photo is a simple one, though it does applaud the mighty oak leaf, who refuses to acknowledge winter’s demise of leaves, and the sun-cast shadows that make playful designs in the snow.
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