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Vredeborch Felica with Fomapan 400. Stand developed in Rodinal.

I captured this peaceful winter scene in a quiet forest near my home. The snow delicately covers the bare tree branches, creating a beautiful pattern against the pale sky. The serene moment feels incredibly calm, with the fresh air and gentle light adding to the peaceful atmosphere. It's a lovely reminder of the quiet beauty of nature in winter.

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Camí de Sorteny podem veure el contrast entre els arbres de fulla perenne i els de caduca que per aquestes dates no en tenen cap.

Decembre 2025

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Wonju, South Korea

from Duino Elegies (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke

Tenth Elegy

How we squander our hours of pain.

How we gaze beyond them into the bitter duration

to see if they have an end. Though they are really

our winter-enduring foliage, our dark evergreen,

one season in our inner year--, not only a season

in time--, but are place and settlement, foundation and soil and home.

Die Zehnte Elegie

Wir, Vergeuder der Schmerzen.

Wie wir sie absehn voraus, in die traurige Dauer,

ob sie nicht enden vielleicht. Sie aber sind ja

unser winterwahriges Laub, unser dunkeles Sinngrun,

eine der Zeiten des heimlichen Jahres---, nicht nur

Zeit---, sind Stelle, Siedelung, Lager, Boden, Wohnort.

Yea Finger Rock is made of Connellsville Sandstone in the Conemaugh Group (per this map), from the late Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era. It was formed 307.5 to 302.5 million years ago (per Macrostrat).

During my visit I honored Finger Rock by "giving it the finger" in the good way, not in the angry flipping-you-off sense.

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, Finger Rock along the Finger Rock Trail.

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Sí, ya sé que me he pasado por el forro la regla de los tres tercios, peeeeeeeeero... También está para eso, ¿no? Para romperla. Espero que os guste. Gracias por vuestras visitas, como siempre.

Por cierto, estos son álamos, ¿verdad?

Winterwald

Forest in winter

Duncan.co/snow-falling-and-tree

Go stand in the puddle and pose in front of the beast and I'll take your picture.

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, along the Rockhouse Trail.

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"You could make that your Christmas tree couldnt ya" chuckled Grandma. "The moss is shaped like a Christmas tree aint it. You could just put some lights on that and you'd have ye a Christmas tree wouldnt ya. And a white Christmas, here where it snowed."

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, along the Trace Trail.

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Hoar frost covering rows of evergreens in upstate New York

#WatcherOfTheForest

Here was a mossy expanse at one of the huge boulders for which the state of Ohio is renowned.

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, along the Trace Trail.

Per this map, this is probably Connellsville Sandstone in the Conemaugh Group, from the late Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era. Local rocks of the Conemaugh Group formed 307.5 to 302.5 million years ago, according to Macrostrat.

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True story! I carefully composed this picture so that the foreground tree about one-third of the way in from the right is blocking an unsightly handmade sign at the base of the cliff. It reads "This is sacred space."

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, the feature "Boulder Cove" along the Rockhouse Trail.

Per this fine map, this is an exposure of Connellsville Sandstone in the Conemaugh Group, from the late Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era. It formed 307.5 to 302.5 million years ago, according to Macrostrat.

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Touch the soft carpet!

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, along the Rockhouse Trail.

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A beautiful winter forest scene with a view from a mountain through snow-covered trees toward a lake below, framed by crisp blue sky that emphasizes the cold, frosty atmosphere.

This memory of this winter day is starting to get me feeling spirited about the prospect of the impending return of winter. My hopes are HIGH for another good winter this winter.

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In Marietta, Ohio, on December 26th, 2009, in Jackson Hill Park.

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F499.M3 Marietta (Ohio)—Pictorial works.

Läbi metsa

DIDN'T YOU!!

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In the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Comanche County, Oklahoma, on February 16th, 2023, a view from a roadside overlook on Mount Scott Road.

The distant hills on the horizon are known locally as the Slick Hills.

The evergreens are eastern redcedar, Juniperus virginiana.

The foreground rocks are Mount Scott Granite, part of the Wichita Granite Group, which was formed 533.24 to 515.6334 million years ago (per Macrostrat), in the Cambrian period.

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I was sad when I found the little guy

View On Black

The ravine is doing the "dissecting" people talk about when they talk about dissected plateaus.

I can see why people get weirded out by Appalachian winters! I'd hate to have to think of somebody being discovered face-down in this dreadful ravine.

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, along the Trace Trail.

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This is why I like Winter but only in countryside. White snow scrunches under shoes. There is fresh air and frost. Beautiful sceneries like from fairy tail. You can start telling your story.

"Headed to a ridgetop!" I called out cheerfully as I strode uphill.

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, on the Finger Rock Trail.

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It is pretty but ugh haha these ridiculous Indianans: "We shall name it 'Sugar.'"

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In Shades State Park in Brown Township in Montgomery County, Indiana, on February 22nd, 2020, Sugar Creek as viewed from the "Prospect Point" scenic overlook along Trail 1.

Sugar Creek flows to the Wabash River, which flows to the Ohio River.

According to the park map, the larger island is named "Canoe Island."

According to the map in the 1989 soil survey of Montgomery County, soils here are predominantly Entisols (Typic Udifluvents) of a sandy variant of the Stonelick series (on the island), and Inceptisols (Lithic Dystrudepts) of a complex of Weikert series soils and rock outcrops (on the slopes).

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In Farmington Hills, Michigan, on February 6th, 2016, along the River Trail in Heritage Park.

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I wish I had exposures of limestone on my property instead of just a bunch of dirt. I do not want a creek because of the flood risk but I do want limestone.

Whoa the limestone is "Ames limestone" in the Conemaugh Group, from the late Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era. Macrostrat says it formed 307.5 to 302.5 million years ago.

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In the Blair Preserve owned by the Athens Conservancy in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, Gillette Run (a/k/a Gillett Run) as viewed near the Trace Trail, near the boundary of Strouds Run State Park.

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Winter Square B&W 3

Snow- and lichen-covered branches of an evergreen tree in the Mt. Hood National Forest.

The creek is famous for the deep and sorrowful moaning sounds it makes as it flows.

Hey let's you and me sneak over there into those people's yard and bother that pickup.

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Near McKinleyville in Brooke County, West Virginia, on December 19th, 2013, Buffalo Creek as viewed from the east side of Bethany Pike (West Virginia Route 67) south of McCord Hill Road.

Buffalo Creek flows to the Ohio River.

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"So someday the weathering of the ridge beneath it will cause the sandstone to suddenly plunge hundreds of feet? Is that what happens?"

We got lichens on the sides and moss on top, just how I like! I wish I could grow them on my head like that.

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, off the north side of the Athens Trail, west of its intersection with the east end of the Rockhouse Trail.

Per this fine map and Macrostrat, this is an exposure of sandstone in the Monongahela Group, formed 302.5 to 300.1 million years ago, during the Gzhelian age of the late Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era.

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Ruunaraipe mets

"Maybe a very destructive tornado is what these leaves need, to loosen their attachments to their branches," I threatened.

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In Shades State Park in Brown Township in Montgomery County, Indiana, on February 22nd, 2020, along the main trail of the Pine Hills Nature Preserve (a/k/a the "Pine Hills Natural Area" National Natural Landmark).

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This is my kind of park! This is what I like. "Strouds" is a pretty-sounding word also.

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In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, along the Rockhouse Trail.

Spot the sandstone cliff, upper left.

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Ruunaraipe lõkkekoht

In Strouds Run State Park in Canaanville Township near Athens, Ohio, on December 29th, 2020, along the Rockhouse Trail.

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Proud of myself!!

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Near Bethany in Brooke County, West Virginia, on December 19th, 2013, Castleman Run as viewed from the west side of Castleman Run Road (County Road 3/2).

Castleman Run flows to Buffalo Creek, which flows to the Ohio River.

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"This creek right here? Yeah, it moves water from southwestern Pennsylvania over here to the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia."

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At the eastern boundary of Bethany, West Virginia, on December 19th, 2013, Buffalo Creek as viewed from the south side of Main Street (Bethany Pike, West Virginia Route 67).

Buffalo Creek flows to the Ohio River.

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