Winter Solstice ... AND ... Day 355

Only ten more days to go in this daily photo upload. I think there were a number of days I missed uploading, but I think I've uploaded in excess of 365. I'll have to go back and count.

AND, today is winter solstice; the shortest day of daylight is done and on to adding more light in our days! Whooppee!

Mel had to drive over to the commissary to pick up groceries this afternoon, so I tagged along for the ride. It was a gorgeous day and I needed to get out of the basement, started to feel like a mole! I remembered to take along my camera, and had an opportunity to take some photographs of the frost/ice on tree branches and weeds. It was such an odd visual because the ice didn't encircle the branches, the ice formed in ribbons. Perhaps the wind was blowing as the ice froze, so it froze at an angle? I'm not sure, but it made for interesting shots. Unfortunately, my camera is giving me attitude, and when I changed the exposure from Tungsten lighting to bright daylight/snow, the camera slipped back into Tungsten mode, so my photographs are B-L-U-E. Hey, one works with what one has.



This one has been edited with a Cutout effect




I was quite taken with how the ice edged the leaves



It's a B-r-r-r-r Day 342 of 365

I went up to Colville, WA today to meet with Emily Long, young entrepreneur and owner of Loft, a consignment shop. She had contacted me through my Etsy shop http://www.kweststudio8.etsy.com/ to invite me to display/sell some of my photographs.

It was a foggy and very cold 1.5 hour trip up. Mel was driving, while I gawked at the landscape, the fog, and crocheted. I had charged up my camera battery the night before and I was ready to have a finger-depressing good time!

I wasn't disappointed. I had several opportunities on the way back to Spokane to stop and click away.

One of the places was Loon Lake. We pulled into a cabin rental resort on the lake, closed for the season. There was snow all around, and it even snowed a little while I wandered around the waterfront and among some apple trees. Mel stayed warm and cozy inside her car; smart woman.

Here are but a few of the shots for Day 342 upload: