After dinner at the Chuck Wagon, it was so cold we had to watch the trains from the car.
A few days later, at the same spot:
Winter
Spectators on the course
Elspeth assures us these are alpacas, not llamas, because of their long ears. Photo by my long-run marathon training partner Leslie Kash, taken on Elk Run Church Road (near the Gray Horse Winery) during our 16-mile out-and-back run from Goldvein to Elk Run Church site on February 12th.
Owen’s prickly
After the blizzard, the American sweetgum trees dropped a lot of these seed pods on top of the snow. Owen called my attention to one of them as we walked down the driveway to the mailbox the other day. The holly was the start of his tree identification career, and he shows a keen interest in the other pricklies, as he calls them. These trees are quite common to us, noticeable for their gorgeous autumn colors, but I don’t think they grow in Pennsylvania.
Owen casts a long shadow
[full-frame]Blizzard
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Snowed in for three days. Had to call John the Bobcat man to dig us out.
Dad’s hay rake
Baltimore Saturday
Ready for my closeup
Back to that lonesome pine…
… which I noticed in a new light around 3pm today.
Tulip Poplar
We have so many tall oaks we sometimes think all our tall trees are oaks. But among our treetops at this time of year, the tulip poplars are easy to spot. My wild guess is that this one may be 50 or 60 feet tall. The Liriodendron tulipifera is described in a Wikipedia article.