February 13, 2024

You’ll see the snow, and you’ll see the fog in these photographs. But you won’t see the clouds because they covered the whole sky. That’s winter where I live. The photographs in this collection were all taken in January a walking distance from my home.

1 This and the following photograph were taken with my iPhone through the window of the little gym where I exercise most mornings.

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3 This is another cell-phone photograph. At the time I regretted not having my Nikon with me. A week or so later, I took the Nikon to this vernal pool and took the shot again. But the photo did not look as good. I think the difference was the amount of light in the sky.

4 Same vernal pool, but photographed with the Nikon.

5 My botanist says the yellow twigs are a willow and the red ones a dogwood.

6 The red osier dogwood isn’t all the same color red.

7 I can’t seem to shuck my fascination with tall grass (not that I’m trying).

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9 These trees are on the edge of the vernal pool shown in photographs 3 and 4.

10 A few feet to the right of the trees in #10 a young oak tree hangs on to its leaves.

11 I’ve missed photographing the fog as much as I would like.

12 The fog didn’t deter these three birds.

13 When you can’t have flowers, tree buds will do nicely.

14 We’re all waiting for spring.