I am slowly catching up to the seasons...
This blogpost will show you some photos I took at the end of last Autumn
and straight into the beginning of last winter in the U.P.

Late fall pine needles, awaiting their blanket of snow: A twisted tree knot in its bed of fallen autumn leaves:﻿ Doves checking out the first snowfall on the apple trees:﻿ This apple didn't get a chance to ripen and fall to the ground
before we had gotten our first storm:﻿ To me, cemeteries look so forlorn and lonely
in the winter!: (But I LOVE that old gate there!)

Someone looked particularly gorgeous
against the white snow, though:﻿ He is saying: "I KNEW I should have flown south like my other bird friends! Dang it!": Sometimes the snow comes so fast, all of the leaves don't have a chance to fall off first, either:﻿ But that's okay...
because it gives us photographers something to do
that we really, REALLY love!
Just a few more days!
If you haven't done so already, enter your APRIL 2012's photo
for the FREE PHOTO CONTEST of the month.
month's theme is:
Get your photo IN before midnight, April 30th!! Labels: apple full of snow, blue jay in snow, cattails full of snow, mourning doves in the snow, pictures of a winter cemetery, pine needles, twisted wood on autumn floor Beautiful photos . but to be honest right now I am loving our spring ! Winter is great for photos but thats about all for me lol Have a great day !

April 25, 2012 at 8:06 AM that first one is natures fireworks! love it! and the gate is awesome.

April 25, 2012 at 9:14 AM Debbie Lo said...

All of the photos were beautiful. I thought the knot in the tree looked like a duck's head. Really cool.

Did you guys get snow up there again over the weekend? I wish spring would make up its mind, darn it!

Have a nice day!

April 25, 2012 at 12:01 PM Much as I don't want to think winter by now,these pictures are beautiful.The Blue Jay in the snow is awesome.
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