Lilac Gate

I can't decide which sunrise I like better  the one in the sky, or the reflection...

It's been a good week for contrails,  in the sky, and in the water.  

There is ice on the pond now,  and frost crystals have formed on some cattails lying on the ice.  To see more watery shots, some of them eve...

The temperature never made it up to freezing yesterday,  so the ice is building up quickly.  The geese just have a small area in the pond fo...

I was taking photos along a small stream, and this leaf, about an inch below the surface of the water, caught my eye.

The oak trees tend to hold their leaves  longer than the maples.  

I have been admiring the leaves  on the ground and the few on the trees,  the way the frost settles on them,  and the sun shines through the...

November tends to be a gray month,  so sometimes you have to settle for shapes and textures, rather than colours.  

The morning sun caught these wild asters, gone to seed, in its golden light.

Macros of some of the boards  from the old barn.  

If you look closely, you can see the south wall of this old barn has mostly fallen apart. Looking through the barn, the sun appears to be lo...

The bur cucumber pods have dropped their seeds now. This one is still on the vine,  but the ones that have already fallen to the ground have...

There are a couple of fences built like this around tree branches. I wonder how long before the branch outgrows its tiny space, and starts s...

I have been watching the moon in the western skies this week, between sunrise and moonset. To see more skies from around the world, click th...

I love the way birch bark curls on the tree,  and the leaves behind the trunk.  For these last two shots, I had my wrist supported by the tr...