it's been so gorgeous around here, I can't stop taking pictures every time I go outside lately
(be sure to click for larger images, to see better details)

Upstate New York: wearing mittens and scraping frost off the windsheild in May


as I was driving, I noticed a really pretty frost pattern on the rear window

these are weeds of some sort, but I mow around them and let them stray into the lawn and into my flower garden

seems to be a theme lately, pictures snapped from behind the windshield -- sunrise, as we pulled out of our driveway this morning:

of course the day started with a heart-shaped chunk of firewood...

you can barely make out the thermometer in the upper left corner - it read below 0°F this morning

first sunrise of the new year

early morning crescent moon

so quiet & peaceful

first hard frost

new morning shadows

as the sun changes positions on the horizon

when a day starts out looking like this, you know it's going to be a good day...

the flash went off for some of these photos, so not all of the colors are perhaps accurate -- but it was one of those moments when nothing looks like reality anyhow (the lucky part: it is reality! Note to self: watch the sunrise whenever you have a chance.)

misty morning hop

sedum


in the photo above, HiTor should be visible to the right behind the trees - however once again, dense mist obscured that view... but what was eery this morning was that the sun was apparently bright enough on the other side of the mist to diffuse and fill the lower areas between us and HiTor, giving the impression that HiTor had been removed and left a vacant opening for light to shine through. Combined with the sound of landscaping equipment on the golf course this morning, I felt like I was in a scenario from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where big machines were chomping away at the earth.

ashamed sunflower