one good thing about winter

{No. 22}

It's Satsuma season!

winter sunshine

{No. 21}

We've had a weeklong run of freezing weather, with dense fog in the mornings. Then the sun breaks through and thaws it all, and the steam rising off the frozen ground is magical.

january sparkles

{No. 20}

A curtain of icy birch branches,

thawing as the sun breaks through the freezing fog...

 

a frosty winter morning

{No. 19}

{No. 18}

(click on photos to enlarge)

all in a day's walk

{No. 17}

{No. 16}

{No. 15}

nesting

{No. 14}

A messy nest. 

winter still life

{No. 13}

No. 12

{No. 12}

My annual birthday self-portrait.

 It's times like these I wish I were better at this...

although, if you take about 20 shots from about 20 different angles, you're bound to be sort of photogenic in one of them!

See what I mean?

damn good advice

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{No. 11}

what now?

{No. 10}

what do you see?

{No. 9}

an unmade bed

I've got a nasty cold this week, and I'd just like to crawl back under the covers and stay there until I feel better.

{No. 8}

old man maple

{no. 7}

(click on image to enlarge)

Old man maple keeps watch over the neighborhood and I swear he sometimes winks at me when I walk by. He is home to mosses and ferns, squirrels and robins, and one or two otherworldy creatures.
Click here to see who...

gesundheit!

{No. 6}

If I'm not careful, this daily photo thing could turn into the daily message on my coffee mug...I'm feeling a little under the weather this weekend, and all I want to do is hunker down with a hot cup of tea and some biscuits. 

bird on wire

The crows are perched above my path yet again in January...(scroll down to see last year's shot)

{no. 5}

already off schedule!

OK, it's only the fourth day of 2013 and I already missed yesterday's post...so here it is, a day late!
(Click here to see photo No. 4)

{No. 3}

wake up!

{no. 2}

Don't get between me and my caffeine in the morning if you know what's good for you!

happy new year!

{no. 1}