Winter

From a few years back. This is the view from our deck, or the garage. It's not much different from today's view--except the stubble in the foreground's become a lawn, and the row of trees along the street's been removed.

This photo lacks the sharpness and clarity I generally prefer, but gosh it shows the way things have looked around here lately.

Last December 21 our area caught the edge of the storm the Weather Channel christened Draco . I mostly stayed inside, though I ventured outside for the 366 Snaps session. Of course the trellis was one of my subjects. Of course. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 24 Title of " roll :" Winter Storm Draco Other photos taken on 12/21/2012: There were Cardinals in the yard all day; I took about a hundred photographs, and published a bunch of 'em. And Oreo tried to steal Joan's pistachios .

Last December 21 our area caught the edge of the storm the Weather Channel christened Draco . I mostly stayed inside, though I ventured outside for the 366 Snaps session. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for December 21 .

...like trees, and power lines, and pickup trucks, and hips....

Pretty typical damage. It was a hard day for trees around our place.

Showed you this drive just the other day. Here , for one instance. And here , somewhat earlier.

Christmas greetings to my ipernity friends. Bless you all.

Pretty sure that these are the folks who restored our power. Not a great photo, but I need to express our appreciation.

With ice, of course. Was planning to post this yesterday, as my Christmas Day photo, but stuff happened.

More icy trees....

We'd just watched Holiday Inn . That's my excuse for the title I gave the set. Fifteen shots was usually enough to find myself a photo for 366 Snaps , but last Christmas I rejected all 43 photographs from my first session, and tried again. For what it's worth, I'd have rejected 'em again today. The early shots were of sparrows, at the feeder, through the picture window. That's pushing what a slow camera can do, and the results weren't what I'd hoped. So I wandered outside and took photographs of the new snow in our yard. Those I'm quite happy with, thank you. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 43 & 20 Title of " roll :" Sparrows, mostly and A Whitish Christmas Other photos taken on 12/25/2012: As usual we spent Christmas at the farm, where I shot 18 photographs of David's dogs and one of David.