Beauty In Winter

There is beauty in winter.  Every season carries it wonders.  Here the frost on our ornamental cherry tree caught my eye.
jack Frost know how to make the plainest things sparkle

Winter Magic

I am combining some of my mother's poetry with my photography.  I love the majesty in this picture taken in the Snowqualmie Mountains.  It just looks like a fairy land to me.  So soft and clean and yet almost mythical.  Scenes like this are a gift and only last for a short while and then  with a breeze or a thaw, they are gone.

Peacock in town !

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Peacock In Town
This beautiful peacock is occasionally seen wandering around in the parking lot of an apartment complex in our town where a friend lives.  It is tame.  Not alarmed at all when I followed him around.  I wish he would have fanned his tail.  Maybe some day! God has made some beautiful creatures.

I love Fall! Just took a little drive around the block!

twisted tree

The bottom of this tree is so twisted and gnarled.  I just wonder how it got that way but because it is so different makes it all the more interesting to me.  Sometimes it pays to be different and beauty is more than skin deep! Adversity can make us grow in ways we never imagined.

 

Winter wonderland

Taken on Snowqualmie Pass.  From the window of my car as we passed by. It is so beautiful  I consider it a gift!

Sometimes a picture you take makes a perfect card.  I love this picture from a Holly Tree in Lousiana.