#winter landscape
Autumn meets winter, Lycksele, Västerbotten, Sweden
Elegance
Minolta MC Macro Rokkor-QF 50mm f/3.5
Sony A7
Platt D. Babbitt (American, 1822-1879) American Falls from below Prospect Point, Niagara, ca. 1850, whole plate daguerreotype, Gift of Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer, George Eastman House Collection
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Details: Winter Landscape, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek - 1835 - 1838
In the depths of winter, there will be flowers !
Hamemalis x ‘Jelena’ bringing her fiery threads out to color the landscape
Early January - Catharpin, Virginia
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Two Deer in the Evening Winter ForestbyLudvig Munthe (Norwegian, worked in Germany, 1841-1896), Oil on canvas, 60 x 43 cm. Private collection.
One of those, “looks like something from Studio Ghibli” jobs.
Historic ryokan in Shibu Onsen, Nagano Prefecture.
Kajika Bridge in hot spring town Ikaho Onsen, Gunma Prefecture, is something of an autumn-leaves hot spot.
In winter there’s a fair chance of having the bridge to yourselves. The pleasant, if a little slippery, walk to the bridge in the snow is a fine way to prepare for a well-earned soak in the local onsen.
Japan sure does present us with some amazing winter scenes.
This is the Buddhist temple Sazae-do which sits on the lower slopes of Mt. Iimoriyama in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture.
The three-story, double-helix design of Sazae-do is one that cannot be seen anywhere else in the world. It allows visitors to ascend and descend the structure without meeting those moving in the opposite direction.
Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima: Journey to Japan’s samurai stronghold:
Got a mirage going on at Lake Michigan. What looks like a cloud is probably a mirage of snow on the lake by Chicago, some 55 miles away. Those slabs of ice are at least as big as a person, probably bigger.
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A favorite old farm that has started to be developed, probably into housing of some sort. I will be sorry to see it change.
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