spring snow
- An overnight snow fall last week made a perfect morning for a walk on the guest ranch in the valley below my house. Light snow was still falling as I began my walk.
I cross a new bridge recently constructed to replace a broken and abandoned one of long ago. Lots of restoration work has been done in the past year on the ranch.
bridge over elk creek
Weak sunlight begins to filter through the clouds as I photograph the barn with lions head soft in the cloudy background.
at the barn
Bright spring gold in the twigs along the creek.
spring color along the creek
Two geese on upper lake. One gets out of the water and poses on one foot for me.
Two more geese circle and call. The first pair loudly answer and hold their claim on the only open water.
two newcomers
The 2nd pair continue to circle and call,
circling pair
then land on the snow covered ice at the other end of the lake.
geese landing
The lead goose lands gracefully followed by a sliding partner.
still sliding
As the clouds lift and the sun rules the sky, I move up the creek to photograph lions head from a couple of other favorite locations.
Near crop rock:
ponderosas and lions head
And, from lion’s foot.
- lion’s foot