A walk to school

delicate dead leaves with ice encrusted edges - good laptop background.....

patterns in puddled ice

frosty fungus

Last night the town froze and this morning the grass, the roads, our steps were covered with a thin, yet beautiful, veneer of ice. And as a continuing stranger in a strange land I allowed myself to appreciate the subtlety of the ice before the temperature rose to greater than zero. 

[maple] leaf skeleton embossed on the roadway

So here are a few photos taken on the way to school this morning.

Ice edges again

view from the front of the school

And a couple of birds taken near a feeder enroute to school.

male Evening Grosbeak

male Evening Grosbeak in a Xmas tree

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Red-breasted Nuthatch

poor photo of a Mountain Chickadee

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