The beaver bog gets ready for another batch of cold air and more lessons in natural chemistry: every phase of water you can think up.
Maine
Homes
I have discovered these almost perfectly round holes in dead trees are the front doors of nests and homes of various birds like flickers and woodpeckers.
Branching out
Branching out in search of sunlight and air and waiting for some warmth
Tracking
Earlier this winter we came upon this set of tracks and speculation on what walked by has persisted.
Woodpecker at work
A male downy woodpecker gets ready for Spring on a cold Saturday morning.
Driveway or moon?
Is this an image from my driveway or from the moon? Yes, it is upside down but did you need the date text for a clue? Can you find the tracks for man, dog, and Subaru?
New year, same ice
The road looks the same on new year’s day as Christmas day; same old ice.
Winter steps
A pause after shoveling the front steps reveals a picture.
Winter blues
Christmas day in central Maine, 2013; clear, cold, icy, and blue; today, “mother nature didn’t make it green but it is still the prettiest place I’ve ever seen ….”
Minor icing, really.
john's f-stop 
