Photos

Textures of a Winter Thicket
Duluth, Minnesota

Fresh snow envelops a thicket in the woods that flow through Duluth Minnesota.
I debated about posting this image for a while. I am not sure the 800 pixel size allows it to communicate as well as I would like. I think it is much more effective larger. If you would like to view it at a larger size take a moment to drop by my site

Enter the site .. go to galleries .. it is the lead picture in recent additions at the moment (it is also somewhere in the winter gallery as well .. where it will stay after it leaves the recent additions).

Of course you may find that larger you find it even more annoying and have managed to waist five more minutes of your life surfing around the web.

This is from one of my walks thought the woods that flow through the neighborhood where we live.

This particular place is near a pond surrounded by acres of empty forest. Like may public lands in Duluth this tract has no name .. no indication on maps ... just several small paths leading from the street side or from the backyards of the residents. The only indication that the area is public are the small city signs proclaiming that motorized vehicles are not allowed on the path. Such areas are common in Duluth in the hills and gullies that lead down to Lake Superior.

It was a balmy a balmy 14ºF (-10ºC) when I shot this with a fresh coating of a couple inches of new snow.

It was a prelude to the last couple days .. We were blasted with 10 inches (25 cm) of snow on Sunday .. and then blasted by the arctic .. It was -22ºF (-30ºC) with a wind chill down to -38ºF (-39ºC) when we walked our daughters down to the corner to meet the school bus this morning .. It is supposed to be even colder and with more snow by the end of the week .. brrr ... we will see if I am brave enough to take my camera out in it.