crystalline precipitation

[OT from cottage renovations]

we don't often get snow this early in the season, and if tomorrow's forecast holds it will be melted before the day is out. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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snowy façade

Center Street

the snow accretes to good effect onto twigs, leaves and berries. 

lonicera

Ridge Road

upper field

the reason for heading out in the first place was to see what effect the snow squalls and lighting were having on the treeline between the upper and (what remains of the) lower fields.  these thumbnails really don't do justice to the moody atmosphere ... click on through for a better view. 

treeline recedes into the snow


the break in the hedgerow

walking on through the break, nearly ignored by a few deer ambling by, for once I found the highway interchange construction project to be neither an auditory nor a visual blight. 

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the upper field's most prominent tree presented a ghostly aspect, snow and light combining in a way that made it impossible to stop for just one image.