The New Year

The stage is set, the lights are on… there are scenes of great beauty behind the curtain for those who will seek them out.

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Test drive…er, walk.

What better way to start the break-in of new hiking boots than 6 miles in the back country in the snow, reading the stories left there during the night about the life-dramas of the wild things!

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Just an old logging road on the ridges above Smiley Creek. The writers? A bobcat, a family of coyotes, snowshoe rabbits and grouse.

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Almost a white Christmas

For the first time I can remember we didn’t have snow on the ground on Christmas. Here’s as close as we came:

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I know, but I couldn’t resist this one!

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Friendship

I think this is the first time I’ve tried to photograph a flower indoors, but this beautiful holiday gift from a good friend just had to be shared.

A little color to start winter

No, not global warming, just a shot I didn’t get around to posting back in August.

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