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Can you feel the wind?
On a hard crusted drift at the big meadow’s margin I made this photograph facing the winter wind. In the woods behind me the snow was soft and deep except where I’d broken a trail with my snowshoes to get to this place, one of my favorites. If I had put on my face mask I might have gone farther up the meadow making images along the way, but this day I spent only a few minutes on the crusty edge before heading back into the trees.
on the road to spring
May’s Wet Spring Snow
At six thirty this morning the sun lit up lions head for a few minutes before the clouds closed in again. It’s been cloudy the rest of the day and is snowing again tonight as I write this.
snowing
Now half grown, one of this year’s babies captured as snow fell this morning. It was moving across the hillside with a group of does and young mule deer in a world gone white when I stepped out to make a few images. They stopped to nibble the trees, shrubs, and tall penstemon seed heads around my home before moving on into the trees and out of sight.
Wet April Snow
barn storm
Captured while snow shoeing on Lower Lake Ranch at Elk Falls during the storm. As I worked my way up the creek the snow fell harder and the camera only left the bag to make quick image here and there.
picnic, anyone?
Back at home, my dog pauses at the top of the stairs as if unsure he needs a trip down.
To go or not?
Spring Snow at Lower Lake Ranch
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
Autumn Snow
I’ve been busy printing and framing for two November shows. Yesterday morning I resisted the urge to go out in the snow to photograph and captured this scene through the window before getting back to work. The snow was not too deep for a delivery truck to bring some replacement inks for the printer in the late afternoon. Much of the snow will melt today.
Stellers Jay, Suet, and Snow
Snow falling through bright, cloud-filtered sunlight today
A chunk of suet, happy stellers jay
snow
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This week’s storm dumped 2 feet of snow on us and knocked out power at my house for over 12 hours. It snowed all day and night on Tuesday, a heavy wet snow that bent and broke trees and power lines. One neighborhood some miles from here is still without power. The temperatures are warm, though, so the white blanket is quickly melting. This shot of Lions Head was taken a few minutes after 6 am Wednesday with the canon 30d 28-135mm lens at 28mm and f8. Shutter speed was 1/13 second. I used a tripod and mirror lockup.
I had my first hummingbird sighting today and shot a few quick pics of her near my feeder. Nearly noon, the light was not perfect, but I’ll have a look at those shots later and perhaps post one.