Winter Wonderland

The day after yet another winter storm in Minnesota. The snow and "warmish" temperatures meant fog overnight and ice coated trees in the morning.

Take a look at the foreground and you see the result of two days of blowing snow in the fields and in the background the frosted branches of a stand of trees in Northwestern MN.

Call me crazy, but I love the sparse frozen landscape that in a few short months will yield sugar beets, soy beans or sunflowers. There's something reassuring about the four seasons ... you know "to everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven"

The photo doesn't do justice to the glistening of the sun through the ice. It almost looked like "twinkling lights", but it definitely loses something in 2-D.

As the sun climbed higher in the sky, the ice began melting from the trees and the crystals "rained" onto the road. A lovely end to a magical morning.