pond bond

This can be a challenging time of year for outdoor photography.  The trees are bare and the grass is dying. The flower garden is flat and empty. We have beautiful blue skies, but Indiana winters are brown, brown, brown. 

Except...I can still find flashes of color if I try!

Leaves are still vibrant beneath our front bushes.

I see flits of color in the bare tree branches.

A few bright berries are still clinging!

A cedar waxwing left behind a few colorful yellow-tipped feathers.

Even our fallen apples provide some nice texture and color, along with a hearty meal for possums and deer!

Even without color, winter foliage can be really dramatic.  Great shape and movement by the back pond!

Fireworks!

Softness and sway.

Life goes on, right along with the falling temperatures.  All in a day's work for Claudia:  drinking from the front pond...

...keeping us "fed" with her bounty...

...and guiding us around the property on short walks.

She missed this mouse!  We have live traps in our barn and they're checked at least once a day, but sometimes a mouse will literally die of fright in containment.  They get tossed in the field for the animals.

Todd's hard work in the fields has made it easy to see and enjoy the back pond.

Even in chilly weather, it's fun to congregate there.

Blue skies, sunshine!

Have a great week!