light along Oak Street

[OT from cottage renovations]

the past few days of mostly overcast gave way to an intense clear light.  cold, windy clear light. 
having taken the day off I was at liberty to head out to it and freeze my [quaint expression] off see its effects. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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as it happens, today's images were all taken along

Oak Street

which from one part to another is alternately paved, then a grassy walkway, then gravel, and then grass again. 

the cold didn't seem to be bothering this Lenten rose and the light was playing nicely through its leaves. 

hellebore

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the gravely section is used for access to the parking lot serving the tennis and basketball courts and the playing field.  it's also the starting point for the 4^th of July parade. 

redbud seed pod

the flag in the background is flying at half staff in mourning for the late president Gerald Ford. 

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the light on these fallen leaves was bringing out detail in fine relief, subdued in comparison to stark shadow cast by overhanging blades of grass. 

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the full sun passing through these hanging seed clusters turned them into glowsticks. 

danger zone

[OT from cottage renovations]

Meg is also known as the Kitten of Mass Destruction.  nothing -- and nobody -- is safe around her.  earthyshadow and the shadow wolf have been visiting and Meg has extended to them the murderous sort of hospitality her species usually reserves for mice and birds. 

here she is, doing her best to strangle the s. w.: 

choke hazard