Days of rain and warm temperatures create this crunchy, undulating surface made of old snow.

This spot is a good example of the different lighting along our paths through the woods. Barred owls like to perch in these trees.

Post Christmas temperatures reached over 40F; the previous snowfall of autumn is steadily melting. The low winter sun gives us some great coloring in the otherwise gray season.

Maine backwoods markers made of wood; the Bear needs no cairns, though! He already knows where the trail is and he sends out a “Merry Christmas” to all.

Another backwoods cairn, Maine woods version.

During the past fall, we marked the trail through a newly harvested forest near our house. The remnants of the lumbering make for impromptu sculptures.