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Five Stump Skypatch on Whitetail Way (turns left from here) and the south terminus of Tettegouche Pass (branches to the right from here)
Frosted Maples and a Big Balsam – at the intersection where Fern Path, Bunchberry Path and Maplegate Path branch off Balsamea Way, at the point where it turns through an S just before becoming the leg of the Turkeyfoot intersection.
A scene from the Garden Lot, which is a wild garden, not a cultivated one.
Snow-Bent Gray Birch on Balsamea Way – Gray birches are known for growing fast, often in multiple-trunk clusters, dying young, and bending under snow load, often staying bent but usually recovering most of the way when the snow melts (or is knocked off by The Balsamean so he doesn’t have to duck under them when they block the trail like this).
More gray birch bending across Balsamea Way.
Gray Birch and Pine weighed down with snow on Balsamea Way
More trees bending across the trail.
Buddy tolerates snow and cold very well.
“Did you say COOKIE?”
Another view of that frosted maple. These things look magnificent in the sunlight and in 3-D when you are standing there in the crisp, fresh, cold air. No photograph ever does justice to the image. The amazing thing is that I get to walk around this place any time I want, and I do it at least three times every day of the year.
Looking east across the Garden Lot. Buddy is waiting for me to get done taking pictures so we can get going on our walk. That thing in front of him is a small rock cairn that may become larger a little at a time over the years.
View east across Garden Lot, Balsamea Way heading east to the right in this picture.
Looking west across the Garden Lot into the beginning of Balsamean Way. The house is in that bright spot down the trail.
Cloud-Swept Sky over Balsamea Headquarters.
A little spruce proving its capacity for snow load.
Turkeyfoot Leg East again.
Turkeyfoot Leg East Entrance. This is the scene at the point where Balsamea Way begins the leg into Turkeyfoot intersection, and Buddy again looking at me to see if I’m coming along or not.
Little opening on Whitetail Way at the intersection with the south end of Bunchberry Path. This is one of our most beautiful Balsam Fir snow scenes, because it gets a lot of south sun exposure across an empty space, making the balsam branches dense all the way to the ground.
Everyone has their shadow side.
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Related Articles — THESE ARE VERY COOL.
- four ways to enjoy nature in winter (rebeccainthewoods.wordpress.com)
- Winter Storm Nemo (kieraworld.wordpress.com)
- Two ways of seeing trees (michellecusolito.blogspot.com)
The images are beautiful; thanks for giving me a glimpse while I stay far away on the equator. we’ve had a week of beautiful weather, and iIve spent most of that time outdoors!
On a hot day out there there at the edge of the world, you can visit my winter pix and cool your eyes. Oh … I thought somebody should say this for those who grew up on Wikipedia instead of Funk & Wagnalls: “equator” is the part of the earth that inspired Wal-Mart’s store brand name, Equate, because it goes all the way around the world, like Wal-Mart.
Beautiful!
Thanks, Rebecca. Judging from your blog, you’re going to be a great environmental educator. Heck … you ARE a great environmental educator, with or without that master’s degree. For everyone else reading this, I want them to read this post of yours, which is how I happily landed in your space: Four Ways to Enjoy Nature in Winter. Plus, the winter activity you do so well: photography. All of your posts are terrific. For example, Valuing Wildlife, about what we say on our currency. Anyone who loves nature presented in fresh, beautiful and insightful ways should subscribe to rebeccainthewoods.wordpress.com.
Very nice. Thaks for sharing.
Burrrrrrrr-ti-ful! Love Buddy’s snowy nose!
Yeah, whether it’s dirt or snow, if there’s something in it worth investigating, the nose goes there. Scares me the way he shoves his face into a burrow. I keep thinking he’ll get his nose bit some day, or quilled. But then I guess he’ll be more careful. BTW an interesting thing about porcupine quills: they contain a natural antiseptic agent, so usually they don’t cause infection.