A last little snow, sometime in early March, I think.
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New Green Season 3, 2, 5, 6, c. 2014
Fujifilm Color 200
Pentax MX, Kalimar 500mm mirror lens
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The Same House on Different Days: Friscalation & Bedroom Mirror c. 2014
Kodak Portra 160
The Same House on Different Days: Snow c. 2014
Kodak Portra 400
More from our recent cold morning: lichen growing on a hawthorn bush against a wire fence. I had no idea Portra was so happy in blue.
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Flaming Lichen 1 & 2, c. 2013
Kodak Portra 160
Pentax MX, Kalimar 500mm mirror lens
A line of frost through the big lens, one sunny-ish morning at about 8 (yep). I’m realizing I can have some bizarro fun with that lens.
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Cold Border, c. 2013
Kodak Portra 160
Pentax MX, Kalimar 500mm mirror lens
(Thank you, Wes Anderson: I love that word.)
Some abstractions on a truly cold morning (at last!).
Here’s what I was looking at:
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Friscalating Frostlight 1, 2, 3 & Original, c. 2013
Kodak Portra 160
Pentax MX, Kalimar 500mm mirror lens
While some crunch around in the stillness of snow with stinging cheeks and frosty breath, the winter sun turning all to diamonds, and others thrill to strange and marvelous temperatures rare to their climes, we are here pacing our weedy half-dormant lawns wondering if this dull pimple of a non-season we are having will ever pop.
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Damp Season: Limb, Pond, Sunflower, Firs, Pear Tree, c. 2013
Rollei Digibase CN200
Pentax MX, Kalimar 500mm mirror lens
Frozen puddles taken over the last couple of years.
We’ve had little in the way of real winter weather so far this year — even our usual crunchy, stinging morning frost is late in arriving — so these will have to tide me over.
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Ice Puddles BW #1, 3, 6, 9, c. 2009
Ilford XP2 400
Ice Puddle BW #11 (Bigfoot), c. 2011
Fujifilm Neopan 1600
Flipping through my garden plan for next year, and dreamily remembering how well they looked at the foot of the sunflowers.
(Two ruthless crops of this image:)
(Suuure, it might look o.k. from here, but click to see it larger and witness the long scratch along the lower third, and be annoyed and distracted by the blurry stuff in front.)
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Scarlet Flax, August 2, 1, & original, c. 2012
Fujifilm Neopan 400
My little Andean friends remain green as winter sets in, and were in full bloom right through the end of November, when this was taken.
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November Nasturtiums, c. 2012
Kodak Portra 160
Symphoricarpos albus — or Common Snowberry — is a member of the honeysuckle family; this particular variety is native to the Pacific Northwest. They’re called “snowberries” not because of how they look on the shrub, but because of how they look when you break them open (oooo, shiny!). The leaves fall and the fruit stays to benefit the beasts of winter (but don’t let your kids eat ’em). Sometimes the berries are pink or red.
There are northwest snowberries growing at Monticello, descended from a plant collected at the Columbia River by Lewis & Clark.
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Snowberries (2), c. 2012
Fujifilm Neopan 1600
