This morning we awoke to snow--
not much, but enough.
Enough to experience the stillness it brings when it blankets the world in a layer of soft, clean, cold, whiteness.
Enough to preserve the lifetime of one snowflake suspended from a spider's silken thread.
Enough to slow us all down long enough to appreciate the little things.
Tomorrow this gift will seem like a dream.
Come along in Red Canoe as she explores the quiet backwater of Ohio's State Parks and the scenic streams and rivers of the Midwest. Discover the beauty hidden beyond the water's edge, quietly waiting, past access points, often only inches deep!
Come browse my photography site, Nature Remains: nothing but a photograph, for full-page slide shows of my favorite images and opportunities to purchase them.
In Spring of 2008, I began the study of 2 vernal pools on my property as part of the Ohio Vernal Pool Partnership monitoring program.
My 2008 journal includes the first photos and findings, as I studied this fascinating wetland area just a few steps beyond my backdoor...
2009 photos and findings,
2010,... again!
Now, 4 years later, another season is just days away!
Travel beyond the Midwest has taken me to some beautiful places. Usually off the beaten track, these places are WILD!
Acadia National Park
New River Nature Festival
Olympic National Park
Pictured Rocks and the UP
Voyageurs National Park
(click on the text above each photo for a quick get-away)
A regularly appearing feature, "Have you seen..." takes a closer, more patient look at things usually not seen in a flattering light.
Take a look!
Each spring, as winter lessens its grip and days warm with the first fragrant breezes of a new season, we collect sap from our Sugar Maples and produce just enough syrup for ourselves for the coming year.
The progress of this year's backyard endeavor is illustrated here.
Summer 2008, the tiny jewel of the avian world, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, nested just feet from my front door. Pictures of her nest and the changing lives within are collected in this journal.
From life the size of a pea....
Cats that come to stay
(click on the text above each photo for stories in these collections)
9 comments:
Beautiful photos! I love the last two especially. That dangling snowflake is spectacular.
love your photos and the snow flake is amazing! BRAVO!
How wonderful that you were there to capture that snowflake, and that you could share it with us!
Your photos can only be more beautiful with your words.
I'm listening to soft Christmas Carols here at the office and the combination of your post and the music is so soothing....
Love the snowflake!
Great pictures, Nina. The suspended snowflake was totally amazing. How fortunate for you (and us!) that you were able to capture that image.
Snowflake is an ncredible photo. The Frost is also beautiful.
I adore snow as long as I can just putter about the house and gardens. I do not like driving in it! It is so very beautiful when it snows.
Enjoy!
Sherry
Of the megazillion snowflakes that descended near your home ,you have immortalized that star flake in a stunning--and unique-- photo that introduces the dancing Euonymous (?),red fruit, tufted with the whitness you describe so well.
That's a lot of snow! We don't get snow every year here so any snow is a lot :)
Wow.....you've captured a snowflake wonderfully! All of these shots are gorgeous!
Great job!
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