Sunny morning Snow Pictures

The sun is back after our last storm. It always looks so beautiful in the morning. Look up or look down,  sky and snow are intensely blue.

Guess

Okay - I've cropped this and posterized it and done stuff  to it - so guess what it really is if you can.

more snow again

It seems like it's been a very long, snowy winter. But it's not like the East Coast with their record snowfalls so I guess I shouldn't complain. We had more snow last night again from a little storm, just a few inches, but it got cold again, and no sun all day. I didn't even want to go outside today. Here are some back yard pictures.

mini climate zones

We had another couple inches of snow on Sunday. It will snow off and on for a few days and then warm up for a few days. Some parts of the shaded back yard never see the sun and the result is a deep snowbank in back that tapers off to no snow at all the farther back you go. It looks cool, two different seasons at once. Many squirrel prints cross it going in all directions. Now it has my footprints too. It's crunchy, but then you suddenly sink into it as you step.

Prairie pictures

I went over to a local park this afternoon and took my painting stuff and my camera. The snow is mostly melted off. Taking pictures in the middle of a sunny day is a real challenge. Your eye sees a million shades of dark to light but the camera never seems to be able to get the true picture. Either the sky washes out or the ground is too dark. Or it all turns bluish because it's so bright. So I tried fooling with them to get the detail in both ground and sky. At any rate, here is a prairie picture.

looking for icicles

I went to take some photos of the icicles in the park that I saw the other day but they were gone - It got too warm yesterday and they all melted off. A missed opportunity.  But the water is starting to melt in the irrigation ditch so there were some interesting ice pictures there. Here are some of them.

Cold again

A storm came in yesterday and it snowed all day off and on, not much accumulation, but a lot of flakes off and on. I stayed inside, keeping warm. Today I took a walk at 7, and the temperature was around 3 or 4 degrees F. But it looked beautiful and the sun is back.

eating the fat

The birds have really been going through the peanut butter/fat/seed blocks we've been putting out. Here are two of them at work, a flicker and a woodpecker. How nicely that long flicker bill can reach in the cage. Notice how small the block is in the second picture.Not much left for the woodpecker.  This reminds me that I need to get out there and cut away that stick that obscures my view from the window.