In case you hadn’t noticed, it has been almost a month since my last post. This is because, in New England, March is a lousy time to be a nature photographer. Winter hangs on tenaciously… well in to April this year… and the landscape is dreary and drab. Motivation to photograph is low, but yesterday I headed out “down back” of the house hoping to find a few good photographs.
The snow is the woods is patchy… lots of bare ground but many surprisingly deep pockets. When you step on a snowy spot you are never sure if you are going to sink in an inch or a foot… makes life interesting.
At one point I was standing on a patch of snow for some time when suddenly the snow under my right foot gave way. I found myself knee deep in the snow (on that side only) and, at the bottom of the hole, I felt my boot flooding with ice water! My first thought was to head directly home, but after a couple of minutes my boot was only wet and squishy so I continued to explore and photograph. It was only when I realized, some tens of minutes later, that the toes of my right foot were numb that I called it a day and headed back up the hill.
The last two photos in this set were taken at a local nursery. I accompanied Joan there on Saturday… methinks that gardeners have feelings about March similar to those of photographers!
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