Winter Watch

While many of you might recall numerous shots from the back of the house toward the lake, this is a view from the front porch, the point of departure for my various wanderings...those wanderings presently being significantly reduced in time due to the continuing frigid temps to about 30-45 minutes until the camera freezes up and I with it. We were supposed to reach +10F today but have yet to do so. The result is that December will set records for cold and the snow has remained on every branch of every tree for a longer period than I've ever witnessed, this also due to lack of winds. It's beautiful but the trees are straining.

 

For this photo, I asked my amenable neighbor to do a fly-by and, as you can see, he obliged, circling overhead until I signaled that I thought I had a decent picture and he could return to his aerie. I did a lot of playing with processing on this one and, after a great deal of debate, decided on the monochrome. The original is in comments taken moments before the eagle arrived...;-)

 

[As usual, larger is probably better]

Done