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"She calls herself the Queen of Narnia thought she has no right to be queen at all." ❄️ A winter dream come true 🤩 #WinterWonderland #SnowQueen #BeautyInWinter #JoyfulWinter
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November 15, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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The evening walk. I missed the best color, which happened while I was driving to the trail & Argyll doesn't have the right digits to operate the phone camera.

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Vivid orange and yellow sunset. There's a creek running diagonally from lower right corner up to the middle left of the photo--mostly the water is out of sight below the bank, but there's a patch of water reflecting the sunset just in the middle of the photo. Trees across the horizon below the sunset color, and also to the right and left of the photo. There's a triangle of snow in the lower left; it's tinted pink by the reflection of the sunset.
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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The evening walk. I love December skies. The blue under the rose is our shadow reaching forward into space

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Looking east at sunset. Blueberry blue sky, then a band of rose, then the blue of earth’s shadow. Foreground is the sports field around which the walking track winds. Tall light poles scatter across the athletic field. Sunset. Deep blue shading to purple at the top. Bright mandarin orange at the horizon, interrupted by sprays of tree branches. The foreground is already shadow-dark.
December 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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At 9 this morning we were the first house dwellers out and about. Must be New Year's!

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Animal tracks in fresh snow. I think they're mostly squirrels and raccoons, but I am no expert.
January 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Winter color

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Vivid orange sunset. A single tree is silhouetted by the color on the left side, and some branches on a tree reach in from the upper right edge. The color fades into periwinkle toward the top.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I love the colors and textures of winter. Tans, buff, browns, russets, dark reds, surprise greens. The skies. The shadows. Especially the shadows that highlight textures we miss in summer.
Winter beauty brings me joy. Joy = one of the great forces of resistance.

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Wetland grasses in winter. Several ragged l cat tails stick up above the tumbled clumps. A tall metal utility pole in the upper left supports several power lines that swoop across that corner. Behind the clumps of grass is a row of reddish brambles. Behind that, a line of mostly deciduous trees. Visible low down through the near trees is a darker band of farther away trees at the top of a rise just beyond this scene.
January 12, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Sunset before the snow.

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Sunset. Purplish clouds, then a band of pink. To the left of the darkest pink is a bright spot in the clouds shaped a bit like a sideways cello. A line of trees beneath that, then a sloping field. In the foreground, a split-rail fence, and at the bottom of the photo a strip of pavement.
February 22, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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We got 2" snow out of a "up to a coating" event! Argyll & I started our walk at the moment of golden light. We ended in sunset fog.

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Snow covered trail heading into the woods. Golden rays of the sun pick out some of the trees, and a patch of trail up ahead. Frozen pond surrounded by trees, 3-4 kids (smoking weed, if you want to know) on a spit of land straight ahead. Trees outline the far shore, and continue around to our right. The sky is beginning to color as the sun gets close to setting. A side trail makes a loop around a stand of evergreens. Sun is beginning to set, visible on through the deciduous trees on the left of hte trail. Red of sunset, snow covered trail and field, bordered to right and left by woods. The sunset is hazy because a thick fog is rising off the snow in the near distance.
January 18, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Afternoon walk, post storm. ≈30 mph wind gusts. Temp dropped 6° in 30 min.
And there was this.
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Twilight scene of walking path on left, long wind-ruffled puddle in the middle, trees to the right. Cloud blustered sky overhead. There’s a power line running overhead along the trail, and a supporting stanchion in mid-photo, and a condo unit behind that. Sunset. V-shaped clouds overhead. Orange beneath them. Trees below.
December 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Winter colors have arrived.
From our walk last Wednesday afternoon. (I like walking in the early morning, but on cold & windy mornings I wait till it warms up a bit.)

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An early winter landscape: cloudy sky in blue, grey, and white, with hints of purple. A line of dark brown and deep grey bare trees extends through the middle of the shot. Tan grasses and standing dried field corn take up the middle, just below and to the right of the trees. And in the lower left, the surprisingly bright green of grass that doesn't die back in winter. Lower left corner has some kind of reddish brown which seems to be a pile of leaves that have collected in a dip in the ground.
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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"God involves us in his history, in his dreams. To dream, then, is to participate." --Leo XIV

Waiting. Dreaming. Yearning for light, mourning the shadows. Participating.

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St Thomas' Episcopal, Whitemarsh PA. Snow-covered red sandstone church seen through tree branches. Behind it, light is beginning to slip through bands of clouds. In the right lower third, part of the churchyard. Rows of mostly 18th & 19th century gravestones under a holly. All in the snow. The edge of the west end of the church is visible in the left edge of the photo. In the center, several rows of graves. Tree branches overhead. And through them the light is beginning to slip through the clouds as the storm begins to clear. There's even a tiny bit of blue sky visible just above the sloping roof of the church.
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I love winter shadows. Even better when the afternoon sun flirts with the clouds and dances on the snow.

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Shadows fall across footprints in new snow. At the top of the photo there are snow-covered trees on both sides of the trail. In the foreground there's a large shadow running diagonally from the bottom up to the left (from a large sycamore tree, IIRC), and there are smaller shadows that fall from right to left across the trail. Plus, all the footprints make their own, much smaller, shadows.
January 19, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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It was a gorgeous day for a walk. Especially after we got into the trees downslope from the wind.
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Argyll walks up a snow covered trail. She's wearing a black dog coat. The lead stretches back from her collar toward the bottom left of the photo. A snowy scene. Blue sky with clouds. A row of trees, some still have snow stuck to them. A field with corn stalk stubble beyond the trees. A walking trail in the lower right corner. Some animal tracks lead from the trail toward the cornfield. Looking out over a cornfield--the corn was cut several months ago; stubble remains in curved rows. On the right is a decent-sized sycamore tree with snow on the upper surface of its limbs. The sky is mostly clouds, with bright light from the sun glistening around some of the cloud edges.
January 20, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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February 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Because we're expecting a similarly big snow on Sunday, I'm remembering this from exactly 10 years ago. Beren (the Chessie) left me a few years after this. Joy was his mode of life.
Throw it! he said. So I did.

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January 23, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Rose clouds lead like stretch marks to the spot where the sun is pushing into the baby blue dome.

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December 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I love December. Long velvet nights. The clear colors of the sun’s comings and goings. Most of all, it’s when we most easily see the shadow that we project across space.
Shadows reveal a lot about someone, things not seen in full-faced light.
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Looking east at sunset. Top to bottom the sky changes from blue to rose. Under the rose is another band of blue—earth’s shadow. Under that is the ground. Some trees are outlined against the shadow part of the sky. The ground is rising from left to right, which results in a triangle of denser trees on a slight hill at the right edge if the photo.
December 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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From the morning walk. The sun picked out the red arc of a small Rubus phoenicolasius. Grew up calling these wild raspberry; locals nowadays mostly call them wineberry.
It was merely the brightest of the reds =/- 90 min after sunup.

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A single large tree, foreground is high grass & weeds with fallen autumn leaves. In the center of the lower third are a series of bright pinkish red stems; these are the plant that caught my eye. In the background, more brush, more distant trees. Behind that is a band of hazy medium blue that is the trees on a ridge across a shallow wide valley; above that is the sky, which here looks a little yellowish because that part of the photo is overexposed from looking almost directly into the early morning sun. A row of bare trees; the recently fallen reddish leaves (many red oaks among them) cover much of the ground. The early morning sun shines through in the upper right, making strong diagonal shadows. The edge of a macadam drive (partly covered in moss) runs at a slight angle up part of the left margin.
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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From the morning walk. Ornamental grasses don’t generally wow me, but overnight soaking rain made this planting shine.

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Large clump of reddish brown ornamental grass. Argyll’s head and shoulders appear at lower left. Trees in the upper background, grass in the middle, and various bright green weeds populate the ground at the lower edge. Detail of the same clump of grass with the seed heads more visibleo.
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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From the morning walk. Turn the sound up and listen to the birds. The Merlin app ID'd cedar waxwing along with the tufted titmouse, cardinal, and robin that I could pick out.

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November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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A sky of sulky clouds: a giant prehistoric bird pecks an orca while a bluebird turns into a crocodile. On the lip of the horizon, a patch of dried
Betadyne.
Sunrise in 40 minutes

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November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Glowing embers lie shallow on horizon’s newly bared limbs. They emit no warmth, yet the copper moon floats above them, all but done and feather light.

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November 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM