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snoww

I just realized I never posted these as I meant to; through the magic of backdating, I just did! (21 Dec)

We got another Great Snow; at one point our horizon was completely washed out and the sky and ground became one so I think I get to call this a blizzard

An enormous field, completely white. A treeline on the horizon is obscured by snow to a soft grey. An old fencepost and a pallet stood up as a target are the only thing that break up the monochrome One half of the view is an empty expanse of white. The other half is a trail cut through prairie, the grass drawing a straight line to the horizon. The browns and tans of the prairie grass and bushes is the only source of color A closeup of a honeysuckle branch with a large, round ootheca firmly attached alongside its red berries

This is an ootheca; probably for Tenodera sinensis, the Chinese Mantis[1]

A flowing, hilly, pastoral landscape blanketed in soft snow; a large transmission tower slice the horizon in the distance. The one shock of color is the neon orange of a road construction diamond in the middle distance A headless concrete angel stands demurely in the tall grass burried in snow

  1. these guys are pretty much everywhere in the US--or at least the eastern half I'm most familiar with--and are the huuuge mantises that get to be 5 or so inches long ↩︎