Recent Photographs- Winter/solstice Edition

Glad to see you posting again!

 

Beautiful pic, very interesting. Please keep posting.

I occasionally see old buildings that still have this on them:



And I am always glas it is not repainted.
And I think I still have my grandfather's five-pointed star pendant with hammer&sickle in it xD

 

Hey, stop talking about me! :-D You forgot "has a great camera and lenses".

Still counting down the days to spring. Meanwhile…

The snowbanks are so big, you can barely see the lake as you're walking. All the benches are buried.




Steam creeping up to the lighthouse




Looks like we're in the Arctic!

 

Oh wow. All that snow scares me xD

 

Bored and (too) curly

 

walked across the harbor to the lighthouse yesterday..





ice formations on the posts and the ladder:



and ice on the side of the lighthouse where the waves hit it.

 

here's the breakwall (if you can see it under the snow). pretty big difference in the ice on either side of it.



and a couple more of the lake outside the breakwall (and the beacon on the other side of the shipping channel from the lighthouse.

 

Love the pics, Undies. Looks like you're out in the Arctic too!


More snow for you Piaf. ;-)

I went out to the lighthouse today and spent a couple of hours there. The winds died down a bit today and the sun was peeking out. Good thing I went early, it started storming again in the evening and still at it. I haven't been to the lighthouse since summer. What a difference in winter!




Very icy beneath the tree.




The bare willows




This one was taken with a mode called Color Sketch. Kinda nifty.




The blue poles that hold the purple martin houses in the summer.





The fishing pier to the right. You can barely see it.

 

sure feels that way...

 

Thats a very phallic looking lighthouse, looks like its got a rubber on top about to be pulled down


No, just me? mkay

 

This is the creek behind my house. Couple of warm days melted the snow and it was flowing fast yesterday. Today...cold and snow.

 

Wow, nicely captured.

 

A couple of days ago after a snow



Not good weather for plastic geese, lol

 

Went on a birding trip to Farlington Marshes near Portsmouth with my mum and some of her twitcher friends recently.

I haven't got one of those 3 feet long lenses, but this egret was right by the track.

 

Love this one, the blue sky behind it, how the light falls etc. Sunny yet wintry.

 

You didn't notice the snow drifts that look like cleavage? I'm disappointed in you.

 

Very nice! Especially how you caught the rays in the second pic.

 

Wow, I feel like I am looking at my yard with this photo.....that was twilight zoney feeling.....

 

The temps have been above freezing and things are starting to melt. The moving water is getting closer to shore, the snowbanks are shrinking and the benches are visible again. We'll get a blast or two yet, but spring is on the way.