Today's photo is the third in a series of photos featuring the arrival of Winter in Bend, Oregon. The usually rich, smooth, dark green boughs of a ponderosa pine are now frost-coated and brittle. A small cone, bundled between two clusters of needles, peeks out like a toothy rodent at the mouth of a burrow. So it is in these days, the temptation to venture out and see. Like a mad baker, Winter has coated nature's treats with icy white sprinkles, tantalizing and sugarlike to the eyes, but cold and foreboding to unmittened fingers. I stand frozen in the crisp air by this array of majesty and open my shutter and touch.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Winter thoughts
Today's photo is the third in a series of photos featuring the arrival of Winter in Bend, Oregon. The usually rich, smooth, dark green boughs of a ponderosa pine are now frost-coated and brittle. A small cone, bundled between two clusters of needles, peeks out like a toothy rodent at the mouth of a burrow. So it is in these days, the temptation to venture out and see. Like a mad baker, Winter has coated nature's treats with icy white sprinkles, tantalizing and sugarlike to the eyes, but cold and foreboding to unmittened fingers. I stand frozen in the crisp air by this array of majesty and open my shutter and touch.
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This is certainly one of your best, mi amigo. When I first looked at it, the beauty of the image jumped out and bit me. The writing likewise. (No, the comment was not influenced by the rodent with teeth - not consciously, anyway.)
Love this picture, ponderosa pines being a favorite of mine. Miss the wonderful diversity of outback Oregon. Thanks for your beautiful words as well.
Fantastic and lovely shot !! So beautiful 1!
You are seeing with wonderful eyes and beautiful, poetic words.
Boy, you did this one right. A fantastic shot, Lee...would work well on any Christmas card or holiday ornament. I can feel that frosty brittleness.
By the way, I did introduce Santa to the Michelin Man, but Santa didn't do so well. He looked the MM in the eye, then squinted himself, and said, pointedly, "You make me tire-d!"
Beautiful picture and beautiful words.
One of the best yet! Beauty and wisdom all rolled into one.
Have a lovely evening.
Sylvia
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