Sunrise. A few minutes later, the pink is no longer pink. But it’s so gradual, you miss it. Slow motion. A number of years ago, I started an art blog. Almost immediately I was apologizing for how little there was…

It was almost dark. Almost. I wanted the camera to catch pitch dark. Nothing. But when it really was black nothing, the camera would not click. No photo of nothing. As pertains to nothing, I was reading this great African…

Do you see that triangular shape just outside my house? That, dear viewer, is a raccoon. Just happened by to check out whether there was access during these very cold times. And a few days ago, on the new snow,…

There was a smidgen bit of snow last night. Just to add interest to the lake. Looks so pretty now, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, on Tuesday is will be ruined. For one day, it will be warm enough for the…

It snowed a few days ago. Beautiful powder snow, about a foot of it. And then it turned cold. So the lake just now is freezing. Clear ice. It’s so rare that the ice isn’t covered in snow. But this…

I live in a beautiful area. And there is no one around. No one. I take Peaches out to a mountain trail and I make a trail in the deep snow. The next day – only our footsteps still. Peaches…

9 AM photo. Twice shoveled already – the wind is just blowing that snow across the walls and onto the stairs. A-a-a-a-h winter. As I read in D. G. Haskell’s “The Songs of Trees” : The smallest viable genetic unit of…

I took this photo earlier in the day. Peaches looks so innocent here. And she is. She just needs to go outside now and again. It can seem like now and now. And again and again. Do you hear a…

I have a ridiculous story to tell. I don’t know if you’ve been noticing this ongoing saga of my not wonderful health humming in the background… I’ve been dealing with it since the weather turned cold. That’s a clue. I…