This weekend’s storm is a typical late season snow event. Mild temperatures and high humidity combine to give us heavy, wet, and sticky white stuff.
maine woods
Drift wood among the sea of snow
A remnant of the forest lies among the sea of snow like drift wood on an ocean swell.
Old tracks, old snow
Winter hiking
We get to the back woods on a small trail used as access to property awaiting human development. The animals use the trail to get to the various bogs and clear cuts scattered among the trees; the property is as developed as they need already.
Travel on a Frozen pond
Likely deer tracks on a cove of the pond.
Winter sun
During a recent mid-morning, the sun was just barely visible through the fog and low-level clouds. I almost thought it was the moon for a minute.
New year snowfall at the creek
The first major snowfall for the season is likely the last one for 2012; for the snow-lovers, there is a good base to start 2013. Happy New Year!
Winter leaves
Broken tree
The path through the trees
A former electric railway right-of-way provides a trail through the frontwoods. Abandoned in the 1940s or so, it is now used as a snowmobile path in the winter.
john's f-stop 