• Plants,  winter scenes

    Morning Frost

    Morning Frost
    Morning Frost

    It was a brisk 18 degrees this morning and a nice frost on almost everything when I headed for the bus. One of the perks to using the bus is not having to scrap frost off my car. 🙂

  • coffee shops,  fall season,  leaves

    No Frost, Yet!

    Fallen Leaves
    Fallen Leaves

    It is 36 degrees now. No frost this morning since we’re above freezing but everything is wet. Now at a favorite coffeehouse, Bindles. Decided I needed a pumpkin cream cheese muffin to go along with my cup of coffee. A good decision. Life is good!

    Our leaves this year did not have the color as in the past due to our dry conditions. The leaves turned brown before the colder weather could bring on the reds and yellows. Still a pretty time of the year to me.  Have a great day!

  • Bench,  Cityscapes/Urban,  lifestyles,  shadows,  winter scenes

    Just guessing, but …

    Solitary Bench
    Solitary Bench

    Yesterday morning we awoke to clear blue skies and sunshine. Loved it! I took the bus to the transit center then came across this scene while walking across campus. Since it had two of my favorite subjects, a bench and shadows, a photograph needed to be taken. One thing in this image that speaks to me is the solitude because it is a part of my life. Interesting how there are tracks around the pond but nowhere near the bench. I’m just guessing, but thinking it’s due to the 23 degrees. 🙂

  • Creativity,  frost,  winter scenes

    Its Cold This Morning

    Frost on my windshield
    Frost on my windshield

    “Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” Zen Proverb

    Frost is on everything. Temperature gauge on my dashboard says 7 degrees  (F). Makes for cold toes. We are expecting similar nighttime lows for the next 5 days. Stay warm!

  • Cityscapes/Urban,  snow

    Where’d Spring Go?

    Fresh Snow
    Fresh Snow

    A cold front has moved in and brought much-needed moisture but also cold temperatures. The rain began yesterday afternoon then became a mix of rain and snow. Some periods were just snow as you can see in the above image taken from my porch around 4:30 pm. All is well this morning as the snow accumulation was no more than a dusting. But now we live with the cold for the next 36 hours. I’m hoping the mountains received a lot more snow. 

  • Art/Design,  fall season,  landscape,  quotes,  sunrises,  winter scenes

    Working Out Our Success

    A Cold and Frosty Morning
    A Cold and Frosty Morning

    “The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For until we have begun to live our prudence has no material to work on. And until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.”

    Thomas Merton

    Well, I guess that means I need to take a few more bad images. I posted this image previously in color. For this image I converted it to black and white with Silver Efex Pro.