From Winter to Worms

​Dog Walk Discoveries (January to March, 2016)
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These pics were all taken in my small hometown of Mountain Lake.
​(I lived there with my mom from July 2015 to April 2016.)

​Ice-crisped branches.
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​A dazzling sky early in the morning. 

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The water tower near my mom's house, swallowed up by a cold, dense fog.
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Train tracks in the early evening (February 16) and in the early morning (February 26).
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Here is a leaf that would not let go of its color, all the way through winter.
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Something about the color and glow of that narrow strip of meltwater
captured my attention. It seemed like a rift, a portal into someplace Other.

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Sky and metal, color and geometry

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I have a walking buddy when my son, Louis, is home on breaks from college. The next few pictures were taken on the path around Mountain Lake. (The lake, not the town.)
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What caused the snow to melt in a perfect circle like this?
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I like how the blue sky and brown grass set off the lovely variations of green
​ in the trees. (By March we Minnesotans are pretty hungry for color.)
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​Curtains of water by the old dam.

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A frozen oil or gas spill. Kind of cool how the colors separated out. 
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​Just for fun I enlarged the image and upped the saturation. Pretty.
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Not so pretty: worms. One March morning, after heavy rains, it was a huge challenge to take more than a few steps without squishing any worms. But they did make some cool patterns in the dirt!